Blue Monday
Today is Blue Monday, apparently the most depressing day of the year. We’re a long way from Christmas, we have massive debts, the weather is awful and we’ve just broken our new year’s resolutions by having a heavy weekend of drinking and chocolate. Blue Monday was in fact made up by a travel company as a marketing ploy to get us all to book a vacation in Florida. Still, there seems to be some truth in it – after all, how many of us are really over the moon to be back at work, poor, getting up in the freezing dark every morning, AND suffering with a diet/exercise regime/budget? If you could measure depression in any quantifiable manner I’m sure today wouldn’t be far from the top but that’s not to say we should let the press put a label on it and force us to take part. Blue Monday allows us to wallow in self-pity, it justifies our grumpy moods and gives us carte blanche to be objectionable…it probably goes some way toward proving we love to complain. How about this year, we all try to smile on Blue Monday, congratulate the achievement of a 2 week diet and see paying off our debts within 2 years as a good thing.