I see your point but will I think not doing anything because you don't want to be a cog in a machine, the machine still has power over you.

I say that as a person that lived with depression for more than a decade and only started healing myself about a year ago. I started doing things. Not trying to "chase cool experiences" like traveling but not enjoying the trip at all, only stressing about the pictures and the image of your life. The expectation of society and my loved ones froze me to death and I basically did nothing. Now I changed the "doing nothing" to "doing whatever I want". Don't get me wrong, it is not some kind of teenage yolo shit, it is just that, after going trought hell I got to a point where the things I want go trought a responsable filter of being an adult and I can do them realistically.

Like, I decided I wanted to write a book, I'