Some days are just off, you just wonder how to pass the time and indulge yourself in random activities. The activities themselves don't have to bear any meaning for you, you just do something as if your mind is stuck in a cycle of indecision and laziness. And, before you know - BAM ! Its 2 AM in the morning and you are still staring at your computer monitor ! Where the time flew ? 'Ah life sucks !', you declare and continue staring, randomly browsing, munching away that unhealthy snack that kills you a little every single day, and again make another resolution (in vain). to change yourself and upgrade your life first thing the next morning.
The cycle of melancholy that seeps into your life every once in a while, is a cruel master. It makes you its slave. It eats away any form of energy you would have. It engulfs your mind, clouds your judgement, pulls you back into boring and lifeless routine activities. It prevents you from accomplishing anything, and makes you surrender yourself involuntarily to it. But from time to time, it does ensure that you remind yourself how of miserable you are as a person and while you do it laughs and jeers at you.
Yet, it happens to all of us, happens to the best of us, happens to the worst of us, and almost anybody who fits the description of a mortal human being. Melancholy is perhaps one of the constants of life, like change. It cannot be avoided, it cannot be planned for. Its always lurking in the corner, sneering, waiting for the right opportunity to pounce on you at a time when you least expect it. And when it does arrive, it saps at your motivation and slowly gnaws its teeth at your character.
The only escape from its dark, cold and foreboding touch, that I know of , is to wait. Simply wait until it settles away, don't try too hard to push it. It begs you to do it, it derives pleasure as you try to shake it off from you. It laughs at your efforts on curing yourself. It loves a fight as it knows its gonna win at the end. So, instead, make it your friend. You don't need to necessarily like it. Treat it as one of those friends / relatives who you have to shake hands with once a year at the family gathering. You hate it, but you have to deal with it and move on. Just wait for the unpleasantness to get over, and then slowly, collect back what's left of yourself and surge past it. Melancholy hurts, just minimize the damage you allow it to do on you.
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