The Reason
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Soup Profiles 
We may come from different backgrounds, be of different races, speak different languages and have different interests but at the end of the day, we have all ended up in the same bowl of soup. As we expand into our latest wing, the soup blog, let us introduce our resident bloggers.
Chief Editor:
thesoupistooboss - Oversees the day to day operations of the soup
US Correspondent:
thesoupistooxxx - Based in Annapolis, thesoupistooxxx provides insight into the workings of the American society for our predominant Asian base.
Legal Correspondent:
thesoupistoosweet - A future legal eagle in the making.
Finance Correspondent:
thesoupistoofumo - Get a bigger picture of what's happening in the markets around you.
IT Correspondent:
thesoupistookinky - Our resident IT guy. Able to blog anywhere with an EEE PC permanently by his side.
Teenage Writer:
thesoupistooid - As we pass from our turbulent adolescence into adulthood, thesoupistooid seeks to keep us informed of the latest happenings with today's youth.
Anime Host:
thesoupistoogayy - Wondering what anime to watch? Or what's going to be released? Let our anime host tell you more.
Uncle Agony:
thesoupistoosalty -
Are you feeling blue? Is work getting you down? Are you having troubles with your relationship? Look no further than thesoupistoosalty and allow him to provide you with some of his invaluable advice.
Fitness Guru:
thesoupistoopradz -
Equipped with a state-of-the-art gymnasium, weekly workouts are in order.
Illustrator:
thesoupistooheng -
ze artistic flavour is brought out by the one and only.
We would also like to introduce our lovely covergirls! Girls like them are as hard to come by as it gets and we're thanking our lucky soups that they're here to stay. Lets us introduce, the beautiful, the stunning and the sexy CHENG, NETTE, AND EMMI!
*applause*
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Depression is more than extreme sadness. *read on* =x
Depression is both a mental and a physiological condition. To me, it is more mental than physiological. The state of mind of a person is controlled by one's will. Hence, depression can and should only be controlled by the mind, never by physical factors.
Mental : This is also known as major depression. Unipolar depression and bipolar disorder are the two possible outcome. Being in a severely depressed mood for a minimum period of two weeks is classified as unipolar depression. A person suffering from unipolar depression remains at one emotional side and experiences totally no periods of elation. A person suffering from bipolar disorder is similar to a person suffering from unipolar depression, just that there might be periods of elation or mania.
Physiological : Hormonal changes and being sick is part and parcel of life. Nothing much to worry about depression in this aspect unless it evolves into clinical depression. Hardly the case, but there are real life cases of people suffering from an inherent sickness which turned into depression due to the outcome of the sickness.
Not very specific or 100% correct, but that's a summary. Why depression? Haven't anyone been in a state of depression for one moment in their lives before? It's like your shadow, materialised from all the negative energies inside one's body. Stuck to you, sometimes it just makes you think and talk to this shadow. Some people have the ability to stay in the light, dispelling this shadow of depression, yet many chose to not only keep to the shadow, but let the darkness engulf oneself by staying in the dark, away from light.
Just what exactly is this light?
Friends? Family?
Guess not. It's something intangible. The ability to accept this shadow, and telling yourself to be able to walk out of the room to see the sun. Having friends and family to help you is one thing, but only you yourself can bring the soul out of depression.
Those who are suffering from depression are oftenly people who are unwilling to open out to others, unwilling to accept reality. Keeping everything to themselves, thinking that things will eventually be fine is he common thinking. However, they do not realise that what they do is deceiving themselves and delaying the inevitable result that they refuse to accept from the start. The fear of "feeling depressed" by accepting the undesirable result causes the person to sink into a deeper depression through the whole duration of self-deceit and whatever illusions they painted to delude them. Friends and family can help to bring this person out of the already dark space, but the person has to learn how to accept.
I would say that, being in the state of depression is hardly the best feeling in this world. To cure this problem, as a friend, we do not have to know exactly what happened to the depressed person. Just imagine what you want, when you are feeling depressed. If you sense that the depressed person is unable to let it all out due to any factors and needs to let it out.. Help him/her to the best of your ability let it out. You got to do what a friend has to do. Do not probe, but just try to make him/her feel better. Details are saved for the times when the ordeal blows over. It's not easy to be a good friend. In fact, you may get misunderstood for your attempt to make the person feel better. Don't let it get to you. You may be a victim of emo-ness, but you are definitely not the intended target. But sometimes, people wake up from counter-emo measures. It all depends on how good you're at and whether that person would be affected by such measures. In short, you have to do what you need to do as a friend to save a depressed friend, for not everyone can walk into the light on their own.
-thesoupistookinky
if she can't love him back the way he loves her, then she doesn't deserve him.
-Grey's Anatomy
sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right.
-Grey's Anatomy
the soup spilled @
12:53 AM
