Doing away with those January blues
January is one of those strange times of year; it should be good, because we’re over the Christmas hump and moving forward into a new year with all of the promise that brings; we’re past the shortest day, so nights and mornings are gradually getting lighter; everything is being re-born for a fresh assault on life.
But so often January is a time of depression, bad temper and violence. Rather than being in optimistic mood people seem to be in a slump; they see January as being “back to the grindstone” after the Christmas festivities (even though they’ll have moaned incessantly about Christmas - how much it cost them, how much they hate spending time with their family, how crap the television was, and so on) and the postman is the harbinger of doom when he brings the credit card statement.
I’m not always the most cheerful of people (downright bad-tempered and moody I think would be a kind description from many that know me) and I can be very intolerant, but I do at least try to be happy. It doesn’t always work because I get pissed off very easily if things aren’t working the way they should, but today has been a good day. Yet I encounter people on a daily basis for whom everything is too much trouble, and it’s depressing.
I can’t get a handle on why you would want to spend your whole life being unhappy (I’m not talking about people who are clinically depressed; I’m talking about people who seem to choose to be miserable sods); sure there are many things out there to bring you down, but why let them? If you can do something about it, do. If you can’t, then ignore it. That way you’ll be much happier.
And it’s amazing how much easier your day can be if you approach it in a happy frame of mind. When you’re miserable, the simplest task (like being pleasant to a customer) can become impossible. When you’re happy, it’s easy. And happiness is contagious. Pretty soon, you realise that there wasn’t anything to be miserable about in the first place.
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