Depression is the ability to focus on difficulties despite unlimited opportunities all around us. It is the inability to recognize that we are defined by that which is within rather than all those things that are brought to bear upon us from the outside. We each possess the power to make choices about our feelings. We can allow our feelings to be steered by the circumstances that surround us. The events of our past will often produce regret and bitterness. The circumstances of tomorrow may wish to threaten us with fear and anxiety. Yet, we have the power to steer our feelings by the vision for what we want our lives to become. Vision empowers passion, which gives us the strength to overcome anything that gets in the ways of the fulfillment of our dreams. In the absence of vision, all that we have to focus our feelings on are the obstacles before us. Our feelings are easily manipulated if we have no vision for our life; indeed, the only thing powerful enough to keep us from fulfilling our dreams is having none. 
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