Avatar the Movie and Depression

As i was cruising the net today i came across this story about the new James Cameron movie Avatar, and how many people are falling into depression after watching it (http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100112/en_huffpost/420605). People claim that after leaving the theater and returning home they feel a deep sense of sadness and longing for a world like Pandora (the fictional planet in the movie). People claim to feel a sense of disillusionment with this world and see a surreal peace and tranquility on Pandora that they long for. What struck me as strange was not only the article, but also that a friend I had gone to watch the film with expressed similar views upon walking out of the film. Most people, including the psychologist in the CNN news clip attached to the article, say the phenomenon is an extension of a longing for something in these individuals lives. I tend to agree, with one caveat, the reason for the longing. When I spoke with my friend after watching the film he told me how he longed for the feeling of connectedness with the world and peace that the native creatures in the film, the Na'vi, felt. This made me think about a very important topic, the soul. Within us all, behind the facade that we call our personality and who we perceive ourselves to be, exists the soul. The soul is unchanging and perfect. It does not lack, or hate, or feel sorrow. The soul stands as the foundation for each individual. Each soul, while perfect, varies in how far along it is in the path back to the source. Yet each soul, no matter how clouded by this world, understands its purpose. The longing some feel when watching the movie is the same longing people have felt since humanity first appeared. The longing is the soul remembering itself. Its "you" remembering your true nature. The reason some of us don't feel the same way has to do in large part with how far a particular individual has come his their path to self realization, and how much an individual has become immersed in the material world. Our mind is like a clear blue sky, its a perfect and clear reflection of our perfect soul. As we age that sky begins to get cloudier and cloudier. It becomes filled with all the things we perceive and experience in life. We soon forget what blue sky even looks like, having been under cloudy sky's most of our lives. Some of our minds are so darkened by the clouds of this world, that we commit horrible and vile acts upon each other. Yet regardless of how dark and heavy the clouds may be in your mind, and how much u may not believe that there exists clear blue sky, one day it will all clear up. The clouds cannot last forever. Whether it be in this life or if it takes many lives, you will see blue and clear sky again, and you will once again know the peaceful and everlasting happiness that is our true nature.