Last night it occurred to me that battling Depression is a bit like The Wizard of Oz (the movie; it's been years and years since I read any of the books): Your entire life gets uprooted by a storm that seems to come out of nowhere, so you have to go on this big long journey -- a journey full of irony and foreshadowing and other such things -- and face your worst fears, and meet all these people who either help you or harm you in some way, just to get home . . . only to discover that, in the end, you had the power to get what you wanted all along.
But you couldn't have taught yourself how to use the power if you hadn't taken the journey.
P.S. Speaking of power, here are two quotes from high school that I've recently gained a new appreciation for.
"You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world." - Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
"There's only one thing on this Earth more powerful than evil . . . and that's us." - Buffy Summers
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