Salmon People

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

What should we be? We must always be in good shape. Fit, elegant and artistic. The speech is colorful and expressive, and the movements are quick, precise and confident. They are cheerful and optimistic in all situations. We joke sparklingly and laugh contagiously. A sense of well-being for us is the same norm as 36, 6. We have a wonderful, high and beautiful self-esteem. If we make mistakes, we easily forgive ourselves. We are not prone to painful self-reflection and fruitless reflections. We are independent, bright and original. The brain works like a racing engine, powerful and fast. We gush with extraordinary ideas. We are hatching grandiose plans. Never stops at what has been achieved. Can do several things at the same time. We will solve any problems. For us, nothing is impossible at all. We eat little and move a lot, so we are lean and energetic. The eyes shine, the blush plays on the cheeks. Sleep is short, but we get excellent sleep. We are sexy and sexy, passionate, resourceful and tireless. We love new sensations, collect adventures and adventures. We are irresistible, and our life is beautiful and amazing.

The more we are, the more OK we are. The more they admire us and take an example from us. Moreover, we are lifestyle icons and heroes of our time. And the higher the likelihood that any psychiatrist passing by will say - Tyu, my friend, but you have hypomania.

And most likely he will not be mistaken. The entire first paragraph of this text is the symptoms of the first half of manic-depressive disorder. We live in an interesting time when the ideal of civilized humanity is not a mentally healthy individual, but, how shall I put it, a slightly maniac.

Although here we are just not original. The world is constantly falling into something like that. Hysteria of the Middle Ages. Hypochondria of the second half of the 19th century. Schizophrenia of the psychedelic revolution of the sixties. Narcotic delirium of the beginning of the last century and alcoholic psychoses of its end. Each time goes crazy in its own way and forms its own ideas of beauty, incomprehensible from the outside, as incomprehensible for a driving New York clubber the chlorous charm of half-faint Turgenev young ladies. There are many deviations, but the main axis is the manic-depressive swing, on which mankind has been swinging from the beginning of its own history.

So we're still lucky. At least of all psychic quirks, hypomania is subjectively the most pleasant. The psychiatric reference book writes: “In the foreground among the disorders of the somatopsychic sphere during hypomania is the feeling of bodily comfort, special physical well-being, the highest flowering of strength, excellent health. Physical activity with good stress tolerance and a high fatigue threshold is combined with a reduced need for rest. The surge of energy that lasts throughout the day is combined with a decrease in the need for sleep with sufficient depth. How is this transmitted? Let it bite me!

The only thing that saddens is that for all its charms, hypomania remains an abnormal state. A deviation that sooner or later will swing in the opposite direction. Already starting to swing. So, Japan was engulfed in an epidemic of hikikomori - young healthy people lock themselves in a room and sit there for years in complete vegetables, doing nothing except by the very fact of their existence, denying the triumph of cheerfulness as a norm of life.

But Japan is far away, and the image of the hypomanic superman is everywhere. Advertising. Movie. Internet. Television. Press. Advertising. Advertising again. Whoever at least deep down doesn't want to be like the first paragraph - let him be the first to throw a stone at me. I will cleverly dodge, laugh contagiously and still not believe. It's cool to be hypomaniac in hypomaniac times. So that everything around would boil and froth, sparkle and shimmer, so that the wind in the face and the pedal on the floor, so that a hundred at once, and no pauses. How else? Especially if you live in the capital and work in advertising!

It was the people living in the capital and working in advertising who made this video about a pause for a chocolate bar. I saw him half a month ago and since then I remember him several times a day. In different circumstances, for different reasons. And maybe this is the most reasonable of all that I do in a day.

Jason Stetchen sits in a roadside cafe and talks about salmon: “Salmon is fast, strong and tireless. He swims thousands of kilometers. Conquers rapids and currents. Plows through the shallows and jumps on waterfalls. Without sleep. Without rest. In a constant battle with the elements. He overcomes all obstacles, lays eggs and, completely exhausted, dies.

So, remember. You are not salmon."