Blue Monday

The blog is up 1 week today, and we've just had the 100th pageview. Looks like it is going good, especially as they're not all from the Netherlands (like that Ukrainian person that wandered around for a while last Thursday... Leave a comment people!).

So today it is Blue Monday, the paper informed me as soon as I opened it, the day somewhat arbitrarily calculated as being the most depressing day of the year. It makes sense, in a way, because it is still winter, and no nice holidays or spring or anything to look forward to.
Well, I don't really believe in that kind of thing, especially as today the weather is really light and beautiful, we've had the first serious frost of the year and the whole world outside feels fresh and crisp and white and clean. It is a bit sad for all the plants and animals that thought that it was spring already, but most here in the city will survive, and it is just so beautiful with the white hoarfrost on the trees and a very oily thin sheen of ice on the water.
So no depressive feelings for me today, at least, not until I started talking to other people. I will not name any names, but in random order, in the last 24 hours, someone broke their very expensive phone, someone broke up their relationship, someone took a nasty fall, and someone saw an accident in which a young person was killed. Sounds like enough to make you sad and depressed.
But then again, that's life. That has nothing to do with Blue Monday or Friday the 13th or whatever day of the week. Bad things happen all the time, and you may not be aware of them all the time because they are not happening to you or those close to you, or you may be in such a happy place yourself that it just passes you by somehow. Not much we can do about it, apart from not focussing on them so much that it seems like only bad things happen, which will make you depressed and sad and think dark thoughts (I know, I've been there). So we should just find a happy middle, and I think I can say that I have found mine :)