[D]epression… can be usefully seen, from one point of view, as the inability to see or construct a future. - Rollo May

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad. If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

This passion for form is a way of trying to find and constitute meaning in life. And this is what genuine creativity is. Imagination, broadly defined, seems to me to be a principle in human life underlying even reason, for the rational functions, according to our definitions, can lead to understanding — can participate in the constituting of reality — only as they are creative. Creativity is thus involved in our every experience as we try to make meaning in our self-world relationship.

It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.