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[Knit tie]

Yeah, I am going to Africa this summer to do just that. It's what actually keeping me right now from regressing into the pessimistic apathy I was in when I started this thread.

[Vector]

You can do stuff like that close to home too, though :]  Just a thought.

[Knit tie]

Volunteer work in Eastern Europe usually ends right after raising money in a spectacle of fund theft.

[BFEL]

Hmm well it may very well be that everyone is destined to die, quite a few by pirates and such, but that's certainly no reason to abandon hope all ye who enter here.
The universe is an uncaring nihilistic mass certainly, but that doesn't have any effect on the actions of the sentient, it does not rob you of your free will or force you down a path. The world may seem bleak, but it is also full of limitless potential.

Life is a book opened in the middle, you are born not knowing about what happened before and you might not like the page you start on, but if you grab a pen you can write the future into any story you want.

That's how I think anyway
And yes I'm well aware of all the horrid things in the world, but personally for whatever reason I just wanna enjoy the story, as frankly its not merely a grand epic, but a hundred billion grand epics all happening at once and diverging into each other, leaving imprints on each others pages.
At first glance it looks like a jumbled mess, but when you start looking for the words, the sentences and paragraphs you get a glimpse at the unending greatness that pervades all of history.

[tahujdt]

As someone who struggled with depression a couple of years ago, I would like to help. My depression wasn't quite that soul-crushing, it was more of a

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”

kind of 'what's the point of it all?!'.

I was bounced from medication to medication for a while, and was kinda doing OK, though I refused to admit that I had a problem. The real breakthrough came when I did admit to it. I was able to tell what parts of my mood were really me, and what parts were the depression talking. Thus, I was able to know that whatever I was thinking, I would turn around the next day. I guess this post is kinda narcissistic, but I hope that reading my story will help you.

[Knit tie]

It really works the same way for me too, tahujdt. I am naturally a very cheerful person, my depression comes from pervasive, self-replicating, unpleasant thought, a sort of mental virus, if you will. It occurs mostly whenever I read or hear someting negative. So far forcibly remembering positive things seems to work fine as a treatment.