No, not the New Order classic. What I’m talking about here is Monday 21 January, which is apparently the most depressing day of the year.
A Cardiff University psychologist has developed a formula that “takes into account… weather, debt, time since Christmas, time since failing our New Year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and the feeling of a need to take action”. Luckily, though, us Brits have been found to be optimists and more than 85% of us “expect the future to be happier than it is now”.
I’m not normally a Monday person* (there’s another study that says that Sunday night is the one night of the week when you’ll get a bad night’s sleep, so maybe that’s why) but I was relatively cheerful this morning – until I heard about Blue Monday. The very concept is depressing and demotivational; and its such an abstract concept too, masquerading as proper science.
So I’ve decided that tomorrow will be Feelgood Tuesday. The most depressing day of the year is out of the way already (and we’re only three weeks in), so everything’s getting better from now on. Don’t wait for the future to be happy; be happy now!
[*there are those that would say I'm not an any day of the week person, and they may be right!]
Well it’s certainly a feel good Tuesday where I live. The sun is shining despite the frost. My early morning walk was great. I saw deer, raccoons and wild turkeys but no snowdrops buds are showing yet. It’s still winter … BAH!