Surviving ‘Blue Monday’
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
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Apparently today is the most depressing day of the year. It’s a while until pay day, we’ve already broken our New Year’s resolutions, we’re still paying the Christmas credit card bill and to top it all off, the weather is absolutely pants.
Other than having that ‘back to school’ feeling this morning, I was quite happy with the world. Until I picked up the paper, that is, and read a story telling me that I shouldn’t be filling so chipper after all. That kinda put me in a bad mood.
Isn’t there enough doom and gloom at the moment without putting labels on something that would otherwise be known, simply but understandably, as Monday? Just another Monday. A pretty crappy, bad-weather fest, penniless Monday, granted. But the same day that crops up in the same place once every seven days.
Perhaps I should be more positive. Glass half full some people say. Although we recently had a debate in the office as to whether a glass could indeed be half full. Some suggested it was only ever half empty. But using that reckoning, surely something is either full or empty, not in between? And if that’s the case, I’d rather think it’s half full as that means I have half a drink left, rather than - with it being half empty - I’ve already waved goodbye to half of it.
Oh well, I digress. But I feel happier for having digressed. Pah! That’s what I think of you Blue Monday. I’ve been to the gym, I’ve eaten a healthy dinner, I’m going to have a relaxing bath and then I’m going to have an early night. In fact, I’m anything but blue…
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Loading ...Comment by - January 19, 2009 on 10:57 pm
Dear Maggie:
I’m reading about your dilemma online as I sit here in the USA. I’d like to provide op-ed to whatever paper suggested that you “…shouldn’t be filling so chipper after all.” The real essence of the argument is to be found in that “relaxing bath” that you mentioned. After you fill the tubby about half full and then partake of its comfort, you’ll have a better perspective from which to make a decision on the outcome of the office debate. Cheerio!
Carey Rowland, author of Glass half-Full
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