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　　：The Blue Days

　　Everybody has blue days.

　　These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.

　　Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach.

　　You can’t rise to the occasion.

　　Just getting started seems impossible.

　　On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.

　　This is not always such a bad thing.

　　You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy

　　that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!

　　On blue days you feel like you’re floating in an ocean of sadness.

　　You’re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even know why.

　　Ultimately, you feel like you’re wandering through life without purpose.

　　You’re not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting,

　　“Will someone please shoot me!”

　　It doesn’t take much to bring on a blue day.

　　You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,

　　find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.

　　You could forget your date’s name or have an embarrassing photograph published.

　　You might get dumped,divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public,

　　be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,or just have a plain old bad-hair day.

　　Maybe work is a pain in the butt.

　　You’re under major pressure to fill someone else’s shoes,

　　your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.

　　You might have a splitting headache,or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache,

　　chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toenail.

　　Whatever the reason, you’re convinced that someone up there doesn’t like you.

　　Oh what to do, what to do?

　　：Alone Again, Naturally

　　Alone, we squander life by rejecting its full potential

　　and wasting its remaining promises.

　　Alone, we accept that experiences unshared are barely worthwhile,

　　that sunsets viewed singly are not as spectacular,

　　that time spent apart is fallow and pointless.

　　And so we grow old believing we are nothing by ourselves,

　　steadfastly shunning the opportunities for self-discovery

　　and personal growth that solitude could bring us.

　　We’ve even coined a word for those who prefer to be by themselves:

　　antisocial, as if they were enemies of society.

　　They are viewed as friendless, suspect in a world that goes around in twos or more

　　and is wary of solitary travelers.

　　People who need people are threatened by people who don’t.

　　The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical,

　　for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

　　Instead, we cling to each other for solace, comfort,and safety,

　　believing that we are nothing alone—insignificant, unfulfilled, lost—

　　accepting solitude in the tiniest, most reluctant of slices, if at all,

　　which is tragic, for it rejects God?s precious gift of life.

　　Ironically, most of us crave more intimacy and companionship than we can bear.

　　We begrudge ourselves,our spouses,

　　and our partners sufficient physical and emotional breathing room,

　　and then bemoan the suffocation of our relationships.

　　To point out these facts is not to suggest we should abandon all our close ties.

　　Medical surveys show that the majority of elderly people who live alone,

　　yet maintain frequent contact with relatives and friends,

　　rate their physical and emotional well-being as “excellent.”

　　Just as an apple a day kept the doctor away when they were young,

　　an active social calendar appears to serve the same purpose now.