The prevalence of depression is about twice as high in women as in men.
This statistic is merely a number, yet I began to reflect on its meaning.
In my childhood, there was a sense of solidarity in sadness among friends.
I don’t know whether it was something we were born with or something shaped within society.
We shared that feeling and built a kind of community out of our pain.
In English, the expression “feeling blue” is used to describe sadness.
Blue, in this sense, symbolizes melancholy, yet it also evokes the sea and the sky—symbols of vastness and hope.
Our lives resemble the color blue: lived between sorrow and hope.