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I think it's perfectly fine to hope for your children to be happy or to live a long life - I hope for those things too. I think the articles purpose was to point out that it's important to accept and deal with the cards that life has dealt. This is a complicated concept to grasp but I'll try to explain what I'm saying. If a person is severely depressed and spends most of their waking hours mserable - they try to calm themselves by thinking about the future and hanging onto hope for a better day with no concrete idea of how that 's going to happen. So they continue to live in the misery hating their depression and trying to resist it - naturally this makes them more depressed and they PINE for the hope of a better day(feeling more self pity).
I think that Pomegranite decided to stop fighting her depression - she accepted it and essentially made friends with it. Yes she might be feeling crappy but life still goes on and she still can use all the self help methods. She can also give herself a break occasionally, relax and do nothing. For depression, I think hanging onto hope can make the person apathetic to deal with the present moment. You're left with feeling like you're doomed to suffer now(in the present) and you'll only get relief in the future whenever the depression ends. If you're stuck with lemons make lemonade because if you hope for something different you'll miss out on present day opportunities.
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*"Be the change you want to see" (Gandhi)
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