Drugs used to treat teenagers who have been diagnosed with internet addiction and depression are placed on a table at Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Beijing February 22, 2014.
IN PHOTO: Drugs used to treat teenagers who have been diagnosed with internet addiction and depression are placed on a table at Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Beijing February 22, 2014. As growing numbers of young people in China immerse themselves in the cyber world, spending hours playing games online, worried parents are increasingly turning to boot camps to crush addiction. Military-style boot camps, designed to wean young people off their addiction to the internet, number as many as 250 in China alone. Picture taken February 22, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Brice Royer, a Vancouver resident, who is battling for stomach cancer, raves the internet as his ad post on craigslist, selling an infinite square-foot lot for $0 garnered a million views. Intent on cheering people up who are feeling down, 31-year old Brice Royer says the initiative was spontaneous and hopeful to brighten up someone’s day. His post was also posted on his Facebook account.

“I am selling unconditional love for $0. Infinite square feet lot. Includes refreshing air, sunshine, the earth, beautiful mountains and the ocean.” Royer’s ad may sound a bit odd. He did not think people would take him seriously especially that he listed the infinite lot's address the Earth, solar system and Milky Way. But he started getting replies in just a few days.

One particular reply says: “Greeting, I am interested in investing all of my wealth—totalling $0—and would ask you offer any real estate of my surplus $0 to those less fortunate.” Another reply says his post is the best sale in human history.

Brice even made an effort in writing the history how he got the square-foot lot. He said he got it as a gift from his parents and belongs to the public domain, the commons, Mother Earth, or God, if the prospect buyers are religious.

Royer boldly wrote he is simply correcting the housing bubble. Targeting the Vancouverites characterised by the world’s most expensive housing market, he believes the price for Earth’s abundant gifts has always been $0. The cancer patient believes that naturally, love is unconditional, but the pressures of society make people depressed and stressed out. Society has the habit of profiling people based on having good grades, holding a respectable job, earning huge wealth and being popular.

In an e-booklet, “Anxiety and depression: An Information Booklet,” publisher Beyond Blue reported most Australians have had some experience with anxiety, depression or a related condition, whether they have experienced it themselves or had family, friends or work colleagues go through it. Around 10 and 15 percent of older people express depression and approximately 10 percent experience anxiety.

The e-booklet suggests that life events such as long-term unemployment, continuing difficulties or isolation, as well as prolonged exposure to stress at work and being in an abusive relationship, are more likely to cause depression.

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