I'm just so fed up with it. I'm warm, dry, and I've just had a big lovely platter of food. All needs are covered. So why do I want to die? Why don't I want to live? Nothing that was worth doing feels worth doing anymore. I know that a feeling is useless. Yet why does it weaken and hinder me so? Why, in heaven's sake, do I want to die, when there are little children dragging themselves along by their parched lips in this world, et cetera?
It seems someone far more worthy should've had my spot in eternity. Maybe it's to teach me something, but I fear the lesson is passing over my head.
There's been a mistake, and this place in the human reality should've gone with someone with the sense to appreciate their blessings more.
So hey, Depression has this way of short-circuiting your thinking, particularly about your self-worth, about meaning, about living, etc. It can make you want to blame yourself for all your shortcomings, count all your blessings as undeserved and a reason for self-loathing, and make you ignore or undermine everything you've done well. It can make it hard to see the value in things. Sometimes, it can even make you want to harm or invite suffering on yourself, as a way to correct some cosmic Karmic imbalance... as though your suffering is some payment that should be enacted for some imagined slight against the universe, just by virtue of being yourself.
Here's a thought experiment; would you hold someone else accountable in this same way, if they were in a similar place? Are you upset when other people important to you have the sorts of good things that you have right now? What about relative strangers... say if they were really ineffective people, worse than the way you see yourself right now... would you be upset that they have these things either? If not, why not try to extend the kindness, forgiveness, and generosity you show other people to yourself?
Depression sucks, but it's a temporary state. Once you're feeling better, if you're still bummed about some things in your life that you want to change, brainstorm some ways to make it better. For now, focus on putting one foot in front of the other. It'll get better. And you can make it better too, if you keep going.