The greatest evil released from Pandora’s Box – despair. There is a powerful illusion connected to this word. Beyond all sorrow and beyond depression, this is so overwhelming and ensnaring. Despair is when you are not only sorrowful, but disconnected and hardened beyond repair – a sort of cold indifference. There is feeling, that one is bereft of all purpose, and life itself seems so hostile. When you acknowledge or work towards something, everything flows like an ocean. Buffeted yet moving towards a hidden area. But when you lose it, life itself is a phantasma, all motion is meaningless, captured and stagnated until there is just pain - a shell in which you are withdrawn, with nothing of the environment.
Then life itself is so mechanical and robotic that one loses ‘en-theo-sia-zein’ and all that is, is self, but no ‘I’. There is personified a malice that seeks to revel and overpower in this emptiness that appears to be a roof, but a roof that confines and not shelters. This existence feels so evil and all subsistence is a drag, that the eventuality is a suicidal approach. Escape from this cruel sympathy that appears to feel sorrow for this weakness, instead of emboldening the ‘I’. Eventually, all is lost.
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Despair might be one of the worst evils ever conjured up by nature or God, but can one really appreciate happiness without some despair? Despair strengthens our hearts, and our consciences. Are we really still human, if we feel no despair upon the death of a loved one or when we commit a crime? I do not, of course, believe in Pandora's box or anything of the sort. Despair is one of the things that makes us human... The capacity to feel despair is a part of us from the time we are born, and I believe that these things that make us what we are exist for a reason. As you said, the trick is to not be overcome by it, but to let it wash over us when the time comes, and let it pass by us again... stopping us from brooding over things from the past that we cannot ever change.
Maybe despair isn't a good thing, but it is a necessary evil.
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