Depression, I think most of people in this world have ever felt it, including me. Research in USA said there is 10% adults there that have a depression. Depression is hard to understand because it has no trigger at all and it just pop out of the blue, and when circumstance changes, it will be gone by itself.

When I saw this video, I just know that there are differences between common depression and clinical depression. Clinical depression has more significant impact to our lives. We can have low mood, lost of interest in things you would normally enjoy, changes in appetite, feeling worthless, excessively guilty, sleeping either too much or too little ( and I feel it), poor concentration (this one too), and loss of energy.

The expertise in psychology said, if you feel five of the all case that mentioned above, you are indicated as person with clinical depression and you should start to looking for a therapist and said what you feel.

But the most important thing in this video is if you have a friend with depression, treat them right. Don't blame them, listen to their story, don't ever compare with your experience because it just make them feel more under pressure, and avoid ask them to leave it behind and force them to not depressed again because it just the same with asking someone with broken leg to fix it at that time.

Be a good listener, don't be a judger. We need to tell them that depression is not weakness or personal trait, it is okay for not being okay. This awareness about depression and mental illness can erase the stigma that depression is something you should shame about.

The more people open up to talk about their depression, the more scientists will do a research about it, and the more better the treatment will be.

Why Harry Potter? Well, actually I got a long list of my favourite movies because I am a movie addict but Harry Potter is the best one. I like its character even though we can find some difference between what the movie shows and what the book says. But a million people in this world still enjoy it and hoping that Hogwarts are real.

Talking about the character, once my favourite is Hermione Granger. I always obsessed to be like her since I know Harry Potter. She is kind, brave, intelligent and know-it- all girl, like Professor Severus Snape said. That’s really impact my behaviour and character as well, I always tried to be the best in a class and tried to not shy to raise my hand in the class to ask something or answering the question without being scared of answer it wrong, just like her. But it was few years ago. Now I am saner.

But still, Wizarding world in Harry Potter is my type of utopia. I do not know what else that makes me love Harry Potter this much. Am I poisoned with Amortentia?

 

Talking about that video, I found interesting argument from Seth that makes me think; “This is absolutely the thought that I’m looking for”. This is what I catch; 

“I see three different waves of feminism. First and second wave were very clear in the particular things that they were trying to accomplish. We had first wave of feminism that trying to get women’s right to vote, and the second wave they try to helping women progress in workplace and such. Now I see third wave of feminism and it’s broken apart. It can be lost movement that goes in so many directions and so many extra qualifiers.” Those are the things that make me confused, can I call myself as a feminist because I want to be a part of people that campaigning women rights and anti- sexual harassment , or is it better to be non- feminist because I must campaign and agree about the rights of pro- choice and lesbian as well?

And then I went back to Ntaiya’s Ted- Talk and read about her biography on National Geographic and knowing what she ever did to her community. If this is what we called ‘feminist’ I would like to proudly announce that I am a feminist too! Just imagine if a woman like her did not stand for girl’s education and anti- FGM, probably they never had a chance to gain their own future because they must serve their family in the very young age, or the worse; die because of FGM. As what she said in that video, I totally agreed to her idea; “ Educating girls means educating a whole community” I’m glad of her existence and I hope she can be a role model for other girls around the world.

The things that I like about her is her belief that we need both men and women. She never put superiority into women’s existence like feminazi does, but she absolutely gives us a good example about what ‘gender equality’ is.

Sources:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/kakenya-ntaiya

https://youtu.be/E37swnRU2fs