If you wanted to, couldn't you get depressed at a moment's notice? You bet you could, just by focusing on something in your past that was horrible.
We all have some experience in our past that's pretty bad, don't we? If you focus on it enough, and you picture it and think about it, pretty soon you'll start to feel it.
Have you ever gone to an awful movie? Would you go back to that awful movie hundreds of time? Of course not. Why? Because it wouldn't feel good to do this! Then why would you go to the awful movies in your head on a regular basis?
Why watch yourself in your least favourite roles, playing against your least favourite leading lady or man? Why play out business disasters or bad career decisions again and again?
Of course these "B" movies are not limited only to your past experience. You can focus on something right now that you think you're missing out on, and feel bad. Better yet, you can focus on something that hasn't happened yet, and feel bad about it in advance! Though you may laugh at this now, unfortunately that's what most of us do day to day.
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