Friday 6th October, 2017                         2130

This is not so much a blog entry as an opinion piece. I have reservations over writing and posting it but then that’s never stopped me before!

Aside from the odd occasion I have socialised this holiday week, for some reason I have often felt depressed. Not just out of sorts but really grim. I could point to any number of causes but not pinpoint one that particularly stands out. However it is not a nice feeling.

Doubtless I shall regret posting as it may seem to some as being a “poor little me” effort when in fact it is anything but. There cannot be a single person reading this who has not been there so what makes me any different?

Well, this: for years I have had copied and pasted Facebook posts appear in my feed imploring people to share some rot about depression being a disease. For years I have said it is not, and I stand by that. Life is about highs and lows, you enjoy the highs and hopefully get past the lows - pick yourself up, dust yourself down stuff, it is not an illness, it’s a state of mind.

Boy have I been pilloried for it at times!

Before anyone reaches for the telephone number for Samaritans, stop!!! If I by chance am lifeless in the morning it will most certainly not be by my hand - it will be adult cot death. I will be just fine as always.

Although my own demeanour of late prompted this entry, I think the fact that anti-social media daily bombards me with whinges concerning “if you do or know someone who suffers from” - and the list is endless, ranging from Crohn’s to cancer to MS and by clogging the airways you can help. When the hell did Facebook ever find a cure?

Maybe my doldrums are caused by the eradication of what little intelligence people had by the internet? False stories being shared without compunction, famous people having quotes attributed to them to lend weight etc when they said no such thing. This morning I even had one asking me to share and pray for US servicemen killed just now when their helicopter was shot down over Afghanistan. The news was from 4 years ago. I despair for human intelligence. I also worry how the lies which are believed so readily by those who park their IQ by the side of their laptop when they go online affects elections.      

I find the internet to be my enormous library in my study. It seems many use it to replace their brains.

Wait for the brickbats…………