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I Can't Just stop
You wouldn’t want this
 To be depressed and nevermore
 To say the least filled only a drop of 
 What is called
 Happy
 You prefer jokes and giggles
 Bright colors
 And music that
 Everyone else listens to
 And likes as well
 You love love
 But hate and don’t understand the
 depressed 
 you always think to the morbid black clouds 
 hanging near where you sit, "Why can’t they just be 
 happy?
 Why do they 
 choose
 to keep doing this to themselves?
 Why can’t the druggies turn to people or counselors?
 Or the cutters
 Just stop
 Or the anorexics 
 just stop 
 saying they’re fat and eat?
 Or the bulimics 
 just keep it in?
 Or the alcoholics just stop,
 and think of their family first?
 Or the hores 
 just stop
 having so much sex?
 or  what if they just stopped choosing 
 to be depressed in general and be
 happy?"
 You think "It’s not that hard, I choose to be happy, and life is great because
 I choose to be."
 I have an answer for your questions.
 I don’t choose to be depressed 
 Sure my life seems fine on the outside 
 And if I truly wanted to make this stop I could 
 get help
 but I cant control being depressed, selfish, or at least some of the things you think I am.
 No I’m not happy
 But you have to respect that not being happy-
 the pain-
 makes me
 deep inside...
 happy
 because im just that selfish

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