Do you know those days when you wake up feeling like this?

And your immediate reaction to what greets you at the breakfast table is, “why does no one else share that sentiment?”

 

And  during your walk your inner chaos is echoed in nature?

 

And even the car in front of you mocks you?

Then all day you listen to Mahler/Rückert about turning your back to the world?

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen….

trans. by Emily Ezust

I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world’s tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song.

 

Well, it’s time to

a) read about stoicism

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/01/stoicism-for-dark-days.html

 

and b) to ignore everything you just read, put on your read shoes, grit your teeth, blog and find your way back to your usual self.