[Roxo]

Would you really? Truly realizing your own mortality is very powerful. Would you rather prepare for a challenge, or be thrown into it completely unprepared?

[zby]

I don't know - I have read somewhere that only depressed people have realistic views about themselves.

[qntty]

There may be reason to believe that depressed people are more realistic about certain things, but it doesn't follow that being realistic causes depression or that only depressed people are realistic.