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So I started rewatching Death Note, as you do, and I noticed that for the first few minutes before Light gets the Death Note his eyes are void as fuck. He looks lifeless, like a painted doll. He doesn't really look alive. 

It’s not until he notices the notebook falling that he gains the shine that most anime characters have. I’m pretty sure it’s not a hot take to say that Light was probably at least a little depressed before he found the Death Note. Honestly speaking I think finding the Death Note and using it made Light the happiest he had ever been in his admittedly short life. And it’s not just the killing criminals thing that made him happy, it was the absence of boredom, because like it or not, Light had never had a challenge before in his life until the notebook.

This isn't an argument that the Death Note was the best thing to have ever happen to Light, because that notion is entirely debatable, but rather it’s an argument that the Death Note made Light’s life more colorful for him.

Because we can't know for sure what would have happened if Light continued on the way he had without ever finding the death note. Would he have found happiness despite the ever present boredom and distaste towards his fellow man? Or would he have become even more depressed? We don't know, but we do know that up until the moment the notebook dropped, Light had been unhappy.