I don't know that there's any One worst or best thing that you can say to a depressed friend. I think the one best thing that you can do is to be supportive, at least verbally, which also means listening to your friend if they actually ever want to talk and being gentle with your … Read more

A few years back, I read some fiction by Kurt Vonnegut and thought about some of the concepts he used in his work. I think the piece I was reading was Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut talks about an advanced species which exists simultaneously in the past, present, and future. Time essentially did not exist for them. After … Read more