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Humans get depressed, and animals don't!

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have you ever seen an animal depressed or in despair just having a bad day or today just decides to be a little bit lethargic doesn't decide to you know he's just not in the mood to get up and go to work today what happens that it's only applicable by people all these types of haras you know and suddenly by animals you never find it day in and day out keeping to their same activity no matter what situation they're in so the answer is a very interesting historical piece which you should know and that is that the was a person who was working on the railroad tracks in the middle of the 1800s by the name of Gage and while he was working a rod an iron Rod went in through his cheek from one side and came up through his frontal lobe of his brain mamish threw his head to the front of lob up his head there was a a large iron Rod that went in there and he was taken kind of quickly to the hospital he was completely cognitive he was around he didn't lose Consciousness nothing when he went to the hospital they kind of extracted it using whatever capabilities they had in the middle of the 1800s and guess what this Mr Gage was perfectly fine from here they were nimu they decided they concluded that it seems to be the frontal part of one's brain what's known as the frontal lobe is not relevant it's not something that is very useless useful that is not something that is very useless however in the 30s they were investigating into this idea a little bit more and they didn't just discover that it's not necessar it's just neutral they realize that the frontal lobe and the Brain only causes nezic it only causes problem it leads to depression it leads to self-esteem issues it leads to people just becoming out of it or maybe even Suicidal Tendencies sometimes it comes as a result of the frontal lobe and they started something known as a front labotomy where they actually would remove the front of someone's brain in order in order that it could remove him from having some type of nezic like that in order that he should live a happy go-lucky life well guess what these front labots are not practiced anymore and they're even illegal and part of the reason why is because approximately 40 years ago in the middle of the 80s when someone was in a very serious accident and was also in a frontal lobe had some ser severely uh injured in his frontal lobe of his brain and this happened a number of times they did many many tests and they notice something else they notice that such people had had a very big difficulty in what's known as dual planning which means let's say playing a game of chess or a puzzle or a maze doing certain activities which require a little bit of thinking ahead or taking thinking of what the next step is chess of course being a classic of that so you know what they were not wrong in the 30s they were accurate but you know what they were missing out is that when a person thinks ahead when he is a focus and he knows what's in the next step that's the way that a person gets up and does something but it's also the way that a person can get depressed he become lethargic or very upset or very suicidal when he feels that he's not being as active when he doesn't have those goals when he doesn't feel accomplished when he feels stressed out so the front of the front LOB of a person's brain separates between him and the animal because we have as we see a forehead on our head some of our foreheads are bigger than others it depends how seaing your hairline is and that front what we call the forehead is the frontal loobe which animals don't have except for monkeys and that is the a position that's the idea of being able to think ahead being able to see ahead plan ahead not live for the here and now but also to focus on what's coming and what's the next next and with this like we said it's dangerous it makes us human it can lead people to becoming extremely depressive depressed or even dangerous however at the same time this is what lives life this is what gets us up in the morning this is what keeps us active and when a person loses that o it's a little bit of danger and this idea is very important to remember because the more a person is static the more he sees his life ebbing away the more a person is active and he's works with that with activity so that is the way to remove all type of impression depression of being upset of Suicidal Tendencies or all these types of ideas which we are unfortunately too familiar with in our day and age the more a person is in adamant and Frozen the more he is dead sort of speak the more he acts in a very dead type of way and that's whyu it's dangerous but when a person goes to pension and I notice this all the time there are two types of people that go to pension the person who knows and is not connect it all to what we call Torah or Torah ideas so and they go to pension they basically have nothing else to live for and you have all the money you're good but what are you waking up in the morning for especially people who are not busy witha at least going to Davin or they're not there's nothing else to live for soad you try to go on a vacation here and there but eventually things become what we call stale and that's why it's an extremely dangerous in state when people go to complete pension and don't have that as opposed to when you see people who are learning for and they know how to open BL gar or they know how to connect withut or go to a she or things like that they are a different life they're living the lifestyle they are just so happy with what they are they never die they're always awake R Goldstein who was a r here in raes he was a neighbor his father of Tu was when he was a young boy he was a neighbor with the great rosha Feinstein on FDR Drive he lived right underneath him and he said he remembers one day walking into the building with his father and he saw a line of old people from the old age home that were counting license plate numbers and they were looking and checking you know here's number one here's number two and this that's what they were doing and his father turned to him and said see what these guys are doing that's what old people do when they are at the elderly retirement age but up two floors of a year there's someone who's in his mid 80s and he's still writing chuv to the whole world and he's writing bombas he's writing he's writing bombs that are still going to the whole entire world he's y busy till the day he dies of course the great rosha Feinstein and that separates between all of us it's an incredible idea to uh to think about but a person has to watch out Alexander the Great to goil if I could say as we all know was a talmid of Aristotle he was a student of Aristotle but he decided to go out and conquer the world and he succeeded but as the legend says that when he finally got to India and he and he was able to succeed succeed in destroying and conquering India he annexed it into the rest of the Greek Empire however when he was in the uh in his own choir room somebody was there witness to Alexander the Great crying emphatically he was incredibly crying and he was wondering why you have conquered the known world it is all yours he said yes yes but now what he basically was depressed I have nowhere else to do I have nothing else to do I finished game over he already accomplished everything the South the North the East the West was all his and he had knowwhere to go and he was very depressed and you know what soon afterwards he actually died people don't know how he died so soon afterwards whatever the reasons are but this seems to be very connected to this story that when he had nothing else to live for he died a very young age he didn't even make it to the age of 40 years 40 years old on a similar story I read once about a group of people that went up to Mount Everest and yes there were people that died on the way up there was a group that went up and one or two died on the way up one successfully came down one guy who almost died on the mountain he actually came down but he reported a couple of those people after going up there someone else a couple years later actually committed suicide and they were trying to figure out what happened the man just accomplished one of the most incredible accomplishments that man can commit convit the highest amount on the planet and you realized that he spent his whole life mountain climbing he went from this mountain this mountain until he was able to conquer the Everest and then now what now what I have nowhere else to go from here he had no more meaning in his life and that's the idea of always needing to have that next step always needing to have that drive to go to somewhere else I one time heard an interesting an interesting idea that on the lad it always says never step on the last step don't step on the last step so the question was asked so why do you have the last step what's the purpose of the last step there if anyways you can't step on it so ditch it get rid of it so the answer I heard was because always the last step is the St the step you can't step on you're never allowed to go the step so it doesn't matter you always have to have that last step which you can't step on you understand which means that you can never step on the last step you can't go to the end you always have to have those new goals papers should never be done it's always important that yes we have our goals and we finish them but the goal should never be done I know we're always looking to finish and say ah nothing else on the list but you know what nothing else in the list the only real people who have nothing else in the lists are the ones who are in the cemetery that's really in the end of the day what's true if you want to be living life and you want something to be happening it means you're on the move and you're you're you're moving and you're active and you're looking for new goals and you're always trying to do a new or a new piece of T new new activity what can I do to help someone else out etc etc that is is really what lives life and that what's what makes life and that is all what's connected to PES and with that we finish because PES is an incredible holiday because matah andat are exactly the same thing they're both made of water and flour it's just a matter of time all that matters is how much time you put into it because the more time you put into it the more physical it is time is a fourth dimension that's what Einstein taught us we always know there was place and there's height and there's length and with but time is another dimension one can officially go back in time if you can go the speed of light time is a fourth dimension the the more above you go from unnecessary time get rid of time which makes you heavy go above time what we say go we left with with Zealot with with a quickness we left as quick as possible we went out with a certain with a quickness in order to go out because we wanted to go above time with the stealth fullness is ordered to go above time and therefore the matah also is the same as bread but without the extra time no extras on the agenda the words the letters and mat if you pay attention are the same letters the me and are the same letters the only difference is a in mat and the difference between a and a is a little dot it's a little bit of ink it's not very much difference meaning the whole difference between the word mat and comates pay attention to the letters is a drop of ink cuz there's very minimal amount of differences between them it's all a matter of a little bit of speed of time of an unnecessary amount we were on 40 it's such an interesting thing we're on 49 levels of T we just made it you know it's like sliding into home in the last second nth in the ninth in the ninth inning you go ahead and you slit the home and you made the home you know you just made it into home in the last last minute to be able to make it you're the last Runner last batter oh why have to be D the for end why going be 48th because the idea is that it had to be on the edge we Mish just a little bit more and we had to run out we have to leave as fast as possible that Zealot is what brings us to activity that's what brings us to life and that's what makes us Jewish that's why we eat sesh we don't eat it nowadays but in the time of the mdash you have something the Corbin P was it was it was fried because that's something that goes quick it's the way it goes much faster no unnecessary mediums of water to cook go ahead chick chick fry it up let's get it out fast the whole idea of the is something of moving activity life Vigor exasperation living life and moving because that's how we were born when we when we give birth to a beautiful Nation known as the Jewish Nation we were a little child who is impregnated inside of a MIT inside of Egypt we are go with of we are now being given birth to it happens chick-chack fast when a woman gives birth when it comes out it comes out fast it doesn't last and when times that delayed is happening it's got to move it's got to come quickly and that's what we were doing also we were coming out because we're teaching us a lesson for life and a lesson for all generations no staying stagnant we are never on pension we're never scribbling out all our goals our goals are always there our intentions are always there and we're always moving to the next step and that is how we lead to our greatness