Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

His future consolidates, his present constricts, and his past may not become the center of repetitious and blocked focus.

As he closes linearly or frontally, he seems to open laterally.

So what does this mean?

So the future is full of possibilities, right?

In a normal person.

But as you become depressed, right, your future consolidates, right?

No matter what you do, you end up in the same spot.

There's no point.

So now, if there's no point to you doing anything, you stop moving in this direction, right?

This is a forward.

If we look at this as the x-axis, and this is progress.

So what ends up happening with people who are existentially depressed is that they move laterally.

They start moving in this direction.

Now, what does lateral movement mean?

That means that after you act, here's you, here's action, you end up in the same place that you were before.

Right?

There's no sense of progress in your actions.

So what does this look like?

Well, gee, I wonder, can y'all envision anything that a lot of people are doing in the world today that constitutes lateral movement?

Can y'all envision anything that people are doing where at the end of the day, when they spent a whole day doing this, they have not moved forward a single step in life?