Think About It

I realize that clinical depression is a genuine mental illness, but I think there is something much more prevalent and much more infectious. I probably grew up calling it the “blahs”, but it is basically just feeling discouraged about life. We don’t have a diagnosis, but we don’t have positive outlook of life, either. We are sad, we are worried, we are disheartened. Maybe a more descriptive term is that we feel yucky about life! This pandemic has been around throughout history, but I think we are becoming more prone to it because we are not only dealing with our challenges, we are also intimately aware of everyone else’s issues. We see tragedy from all around the world 24 hours a day. We read about other people’s emotional struggles through their social media. We are staying at home more and don’t get the fresh air and the refreshing spirit of the outside natural world. I think we know that we can’t change what is going on in the world around us nor can we fix other people’s