Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.