Getting Darker

Within the next two weeks, we’ll get past not only the Festering Season, but also the Winter Solstice. And that means that the days will then start getting longer again – which is always a good thing.

In fairness, the Solstice always means more to me than the Festering Season anyway. (I know, that’s no shock to anyone here)

Interestingly though, so far this year I don’t appear to have been overly prone to the Seasonal Depressions, which again is A Good Thing®. I’m normally very susceptible to the old Seasonal Depressions – again, as regular readers well know – but for whatever reason, this year they don’t appear to have kicked in all that much.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still prone to very bad days (and sometimes weeks) but I’m nowhere near the prolonged State Of Glum that was the usual. This last week has, for me, been a particularly hard one – but that’s more down to my dislike of people than down to the weather/light/colour of sky.

I don’t know if I’ll fall foul of the Seasonals this year now (for this post could almost be seen as tempting fate) but we’ll see.

Regardless, I’ll be happier come the 23rd to know that the nights will be getting shorter again, and then come Jan 2nd when all this Festering Shit will be properly over with for another year. Once all that’s done, things should improve anyway.