Why does it seem like art has to come from suffering?
Had an interesting talk with an old friend last night about, well all kinds of things really, construction, art, depression, and which laptop to buy among others. In the interest of understanding a friend better she's been doing some reading on being bi-polar and depression in general.
An Unquiet Mind as one example and several others. She explained that there are apparently many cycles to depression some that last years and other more micro cycles that happen within a day. Apparently, most everyone that struggles with depression tends to be at their lowest point in the morning. This is part of the reason structure is so good at combating depression. If you have to get up and go to a job, meeting, or something, you'll likely get on autopilot, get going and kind of force your way through that low point. Without this, there is risk of, well staying in bed all day. It seemed like a really timely discussion based on the day I had.
Big plans to get up at 8 which I missed and was irritated at myself for still being groggy at 9:30. I then grabbed my laptop, surfed, answered email and got more irritated for still being in bed at 10:30. And that sort of killed the day, after that I felt behind, like I didn't have time to do/start what I wanted to and I generally pissed the rest of the day away doing insignificant errands.
So I figure I've got to start setting up breakfast meetings. Early ones. Any takers?
Posted by heyhansen at January 7, 2004 10:58 AMCount me in! I'm always up for breakfast meetings. Are you talking 7:00 early, or are you talking 5:30 early. :-)
Posted by: uh at January 7, 2004 03:47 PM