Divergent’s Relatable Theory

Divergent and its relation to mental illness

Being able to relate to the Divergent Series is one kind of movie that those who live with mental illness can relate to. It’s something to be grateful for. Teaching us valuable things to help us earn the life we want to live while living with our mental illnesses.

Though we can all have our own problems and issues around mental health and mental illness, it doesn’t define us as a human being. We may live with mental illness, but it’s not a bad thing to have nor all that we are. There’s so much more beneath it all when we look deep enough to find other things about us that make us who we are and rather human: imperfect!

Living with mental illness may sound and appear to us beginners or learners that it’s a lot of things but on the negative side, but truthfully it’s actually good. During the times when we were suffering with our mental illnesses and addictions, we lost absolutely all hope of getting better. But at some point, we find ourselves recovering and think of what actually happened.

We didn’t actually find the light, but rather becoming the light ourselves! And as scary as it may sound, we are the only one who can save us from our own inner demons. If we want help, we gotta speak out to someone who we feel comfortable taking to.

I want an alliance. It’s about putting an end to a system that says one group is more deserving than another. This city may be surrounded by a wall, but it doesn’t have to be a prison. ~ Evelyn

No matter who we are, we all deserve to be treated with care, treatment and respect like anyone else. Straight, gay, American, Canadian, Buddhist, Christian, Catholic or any other label, we all should be treated like equals but not treated any less than anyone else regardless of anything and any moment in the present.

It’s time that we start practicing self care, self love so that we are then able to know how to treat others with kindness, care, peace and all else that eliminates or rather removed problems and issues in our society!

Having a system with factions where the government has every citizen to choose based on their test results is not right in any ethical way. I believe that we have the freedom and the right to be whoever we wanna be and not be shamed for it.

We have every right to be whoever we wanna be and not have the government or our society even tell us who to be. Because that isn’t their responsibility, it’s ours.

The faction system isn’t perfect but it’s hardly a prison. ~ Caleb, Erudite

It’s that time to make some changes. We may not have the government like in the Divergent Series but we do have many things that the series can teach us to help us form our society and our world into something better!

So let’s do whatever we can on our own end to get this going! It’s time to fix what we all broke. Stop putting the blame on ourselves and others and start owning up to what we did wrong and start looking at ways to fix it!

I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it? ~ Cassie Newton, Tomorrowland

We all have a place where we belong and it’s time we stop dwelling on the past and start creating the present and future. No matter what anyone says, the past will not define our present and future. That’s the past and that’s all it is.

Nothing else and nothing less than that. We are much more than society gives each one of us. And we need to work on that. Heck we got a whole wack of things to work on after all that we’ve broken and caused in our society.

I’m factionless because I don’t fit into any one faction. And your Divergent because you belong to too many but we’re both a threat to Janine.

We may be weak from time to time, but that’s doesn’t define us. For those of us who live with mental illness, we are actually just sick, not weak.

And we may find ourselves in need of help, and that’s completely okay! Don’t hesitate to ask for help whenever you need it.

So take some time to watch the Divergent Series along with a few others such as: Radio Rebel, Cloud 9, Lemonade Mouth, Step Up Revolution, The DUFF, Alice Through The Looking Glass and Tomorrowland.

Comment if you like about what you thought about this post and your thoughts and comments on any of the movies I’ve listed.