I’ve been there many a time. What is there to say… other than the obvious: without lows like these, we wouldn’t feel so good on the highs. Without the rollercoaster, life wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.

But the lows really do suck.

On another note, though I was aware of your talent as a writer, I’m also impressed by your capability of describing what you’re feeling. That’s a great gift–thanks for sharing it.

re: ………..Your ‘mental image of the island where it always sems to be raining’,……
not a bit of a it dear chap. Take a look at today’s press reports of our worst drought for 20/30 years; water rationing is round the corner; the brolly remains furled up & decaying from non-use in the coat stand. Better still, come & take a vacation in good old blighty while the skies remain blissfully free of cloud. No wonder Petite may have a touch of S. A. D., missing out on our, so far, balmy winter while toing an froing form murky old Paris to Sheffield & Rennes!

Oh! and apologies to the dear Dr Doom for the inelegant syntax and grammatical faux pas…. I would have included more but there may be sufficent here for her vexation!

Read a few books, you rule-bound naysayers. Get over what your elementary school teachers told you.* Good writers break the so-called rules for stylistic effect, many reasons. Read the stunning first three paragraphs of “Bleak House”. Not one full independent clause to be found (oops, that wasn’t a full independent clause either). You think Dickens would have achieved the same thing if he’d used verbs instead of verbals?

* And you can begin sentences with coordinating conjunctions too, whatever Mrs. Kindergarten said.

EngProf

Perhaps it is something in the stars (or the water) this week, as I’ve been feeling much the same way. Do know, that you are not alone, and not strange for feeling this way. Life can be hard, and sometimes it just takes its toll on you. My two cents would be to take time for yourself, do yoga (works wonders for me) and my personal motto for times like these are “fake it ’till you make it” –even if you have to “fake” happy for awhile, it will eventually come back to you. Hang in there :)

Anyway, you’ll know what to do next time you’re having a dark day- just post “I’m Feeling Down” and then sit back and snigger while they discuss the meaning, nay, the necessity of capital letters in the middle of a sentence, and whether or not you have the right to toy with the English language with such abandon.

Keep your chin up, girl. These moments always pass. And well done to Lover for reacting the way he did.

me: Roll with it.