Monday, 24 March 2008

monday blues.

i get hopelessly depressed on Mondays. I always thought the idea of Monday blues was some sort of a pop culture joke but it's very real to me. I feel like shutting down and hibernate with a loud defiant "beep beep" to let the world know how reticent and constipated i feel right now. crabbiness to the zenith. i feel a need to feel that each day i live is one of purpose and meaning. And so i did the inevitable. I went to borrow Walden by Henry Thoreau from the library.
http://library.mtroyal.ca/news/retirees/images/walden.jpg
It made me feel a little better. It just dawned upon me that it's not a coincidence that Monday Blues jolted me to get my hands on a book written by a hermit-wannabe, whose most quoted (and my fav) line is,

"Most men live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them".


jolt me out of this quiet desperation today.



All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... world
Enlarging your world
Mad world