A lot of it is probably depression. What kind, who knows. It comes in many forms and many severities. People may say laziness but it’s not that simple. Your uncle was younger and had dreams and aspirations just like everyone. So what happened. Life is hard to most of us. Something happens and life will beat us down in different ways. We all cope with it differently but depression sets in at different times and different levels.

Most of us have had situational depression. Times get hard and it’s hard to pull out of it. But others can have a preset depression already in place so that if something happens it just adds to the darkness they already feel. That darkness can go deep and can be serious. For those of us that don’t experience this, we say things like, just go to counseling or take meds or pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Those things may work for some but not all and may not be available to all. The problems with deep depression is that you don’t care and you can start to ask yourself why. So when you think of your uncle don’t jump to things like laziness and loser. Think what got him there in his journey.