This blog's been pretty much me writing about music lately, with very little me writing about life. If there's a reason for that, I guess it's that life is getting me down more than usual and I've got a major case of the blues.
I never understood why blue should be the colour of depression, since it's a bright and happy colour: everyone loves a blue sky, right? What should be the colour of unhappiness then? Some might say black, but there's a million reasons why that would be a bad idea... mostly because black is way too cool.
No, I reckon the real colour of misery is GREY. Boring, insipid, lifeless, moribund grey.
I'm hoping my mood is just a reflection of the long winter. It's half term this week, so at least I get a bit of a break. It's certainly the case that for the last month or so, to quote Clint Boon, there's been not enough purple... TOO MUCH GREY.
Maybe writing very little about life is in itself writing about life - I'm so sorry to hear that it's getting you down more than usual. Probably of no consolation but I think most of us are feeling the long hard bite of this dark, lingering Winter coupled with all the madness in the news and just waiting for some light, from somewhere, anywhere... just hanging on in there.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny about the colour blue - yes, I wonder why that is. I remember being told once that you can tell that someone is depressed if they wear a lot of bright yellow, as if it's a subconscious way of compensating for how they feel.
Yellow's my favourite colour... so maybe that says it all!
DeleteSorry to read that you're a bit down in the dumps. If it's any consolation, you're not alone. I've at least half-a-dozen friends all willing to confess that life isn't great at the moment....and like C has identified, I feel it's got a lot to do with the long, cold and dark winters.
ReplyDeleteI'm finding that, the older I get, the harder it is to deal with them. I kind of understand now why so many retired fol, in the pre-Brexit days, were content to head to Spain/Portugal for a few months each year.