Slump

I wonder if you have been in any slumps lately.  For me, a slump is when I have no energy, no enthusiasm, no ambition, and basically am disconnected from everyone.  I've been in a slump this week.  It's Saturday morning as I write this and I haven't been out of the apartment since Wednesday.  For me, that qualifies as a full-fledged slump.  I've felt a deep loneliness with no emotional energy to do anything about it.  Sounds like depression, huh?  But depression lasts.  Slumps come and go.  As I awoke this morning, I realized as I opened my eyes to sunshine that I'm on my way out of the bad place I've been in for a few days.  A good long walk, an hour in the Cathedral of St. Volodymyr and a few candles placed near my favorite saints, a cappuccino at Glossary.  Just the recipe for slump-busting.

I'm sure this post surprises some who have trouble imagining me in such dark places.  But why must I be different from anyone else?