On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope.
So, now people are depressed and suicidal because the beauty and wonder of Pandora is not real. What’s next, being upset because you’ll never spin webs like Spiderman?
Seriously, though, this underlines the fact that we are not built for this world. We were created for more, for something far greater. And we will find something to try and fill that void. For these folks, an impossible fantasy is their void-filler. Others turn to utopian ideals, and other, more pragmatic folks, turn to sensual pleasure. But whatever your kick, you will look for something else, something greater.
Perhaps this is because we are fallen creatures. Within us is an innate realization that we were made for more than this fallen world. But we don’t want to accept the simplest conclusion: we were made for God. You see, if I accept this conclusion it means I am no longer master of my domain. It means I am servant, creature and beholden to the God who made me. It means He calls the shots, not I. It means I must live according to His plan.
For many this is simply unthinkable, and so they reject the concept of God. They turn, then, to the Creation and fellow creatures to try and find what they are looking for. For me, I turn to God. I figure if I was created by Him and for Him, then I can never realize the fulness of all that I was created for apart from Him. Thus, satisfaction, peace, joy and all those desires of my heart can only be finally and fully found in Him.
So, why would I trade lesser pleasures in the Creation when I am offered the superior pleasures from the Creator?
“my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the Lord,” Jeremiah 31:14 (ESV)
Brandon Markette 