March 16, 2011

Melancholy Meditations

The venerable Wall Street Journal yesterday had an interesting article that very much captured what I have long asserted on this most dreary of sites: happiness is totally overrated! Why be happy and content, awash in warmth and love, when one can be miserable and disgruntled, drinking alone in the dark while sitting on the ground, right? But aside from providing yet another point of validation for my enlightened theories (of which, there have been many over the years, I assure you), it also brought to the forefront a certain feeling of aimlessness that has set in rather strongly over the past few weeks.