If You’re Depressed, Read This

He had lost his interest in everything, feeling apathetic to the world and society. He lacked the emotions that keep a person alive. His eyes had lost their gleam for quite some time now. His contagious enthusiasm had faded, and he had repressed even his own emotions.

He took his phone from his backpack as he sat in the bus’s window seat. His phone was inundated with alerts from various applications the instant he turned on the internet. He had a lot of friends on social media, but no one to console him in real life. He just ignored all of the notifications and went straight to the music app. There was just one playlist titled “Her Favorite” in the music app’s playlist area. As he peered out the window of the moving bus, he played it and shoved the earbuds into his ears, successfully drowning out the noise of the outside world.

“Kitni baatein yaad aati hai, kitni baatein yaad aati hai, kitni baatein ya Tasveerein tasveerein tasveerein tasveerein tasveerein Mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai mai “Dil ko kya samjhaun…” says the narrator.

With the music playing, his lips began to move involuntarily, and a slew of ideas flooded his head. The ideas he wished he could forget.

His heart fell with regret as he remembered the wonderful pleasant recollections of the past.