Yep, I am one of "those folks" who get depressed this time of year. I guess I am solar powered. The days are shorter this time of year, and somehow I always feel depressed this time of year.
No, it isn't the holidays, I couldn't care less.
Perhaps it's the fact that when the daylight ends much earlier I tend to sit at home thinking more. Somehow, that isn't very reassuring, as I have always considered thought a good thing. Ok, maybe thinking about the "wrong" things. Well, ok, maybe. But they're my things.
This is always the time of year that I am closest to just blowing my brains out and hoping for the best. Probably not a coincidence that my father did exactly that in early January many years ago. I think we're solar powered. Somehow, the less sunlight we receive, the less good we feel. Maybe that's why I live in Florida. Maximum sunlight.
Ok, this isn't a fishing trip for positive replies. Just putting down my somewhat less than sober thoughts at a time when I am feeling less than happy with the general nature of the universe while I listen to the rain fall in the dark.