(860) Loss of money or love

Some people are more prone to depression than others. Let us look at two text book cases:

A. There  is a beautiful lady who is capable as well. She rose up from a very poor background to be successful in business. Everything turned to gold until she ventured into the middle east. As she puts it, she took a chance and ended up paying heavy tuition for the lesson learned.

From a spacious end lot house she narrowly escaped bankruptcy and hid in one room in a good friend's house. Like an animal licking her wounds, she recovered in her temporary sanctuary. For about a year, she could not work. Happy to say, she bounced up and is running now.

B. There is a kind lady who married well. She gave up her successful enterprise to tend to her daughter who needed special attention. As the years go by, the gap between a successful husband and a homemaker wife tends to widen. Unless people change together towards the same direction, they can grow apart.

It is easy to be depressed if one day a person wakes up and find that her beloved is no longer the man she thought she loved dearly and chose over all other contenders. Then what is she going to do? That is a very difficult question to ask, it is even more difficult to answer! And so I found myself watching and waiting to see which way my friend will choose to go. I still don't know, because she said nothing. But she looked better, she dressed with more care, there is a serenity about her that I didn't see the past few years. And so I am happy for her to find peace.

A tripped because of the lack of gold. B tripped because a perceived loss of youthful love. Perhaps there is a C that I haven't met who would fall into the pit of depression because of lost glory? Since time immemorial men fell because of gold, girl or glory.