Depressed Much?

No Job. No Money. No Home. He Sits. Waiting For The Rain.

So a few weeks back we had, according to experts, the official most depressing day of the year. These experts, who clearly have nothing better to do, claimed that this was the date that people realised they had nothing exciting to look forward to in the coming weeks. They have worked out that a combination of miserable weather, work, Christmas debt and bouts of flu make us Brits very unhappy this time of year. Yes, that’s right, there’s a formula – and this year they’ve got it completely wrong! This is because university professors, advisers and scientists didn’t account for one variable…the current state of the nation.

While Comrade Brown steers HMS Britain into an iceberg and Darling continues to spend money we don’t have, the government and health and safety officials continue to ban anything remotely linked to fun. As people lose their jobs and businesses close faster than Paula Radcliffe on LSD, none of us will have work to worry about anyway, since we’ll all be unemployed. Those lucky enough to have kept their houses through all of this, might as well burn them down to keep warm during the miserable weather, since the value of houses is now less than a gas canister and a match. With prospects so bleak, we can scrap the idea of a depressing day…this is going to be a depressing year.

With all that said though, my day was going pretty well until I learnt that we had an official day for depression…what could possibly be, well… more depressing?!

There is one good thing in all of this though…that’s right…24 is back on the tele!

The Waiting Game…

On a day when I passed the ACA exam, becoming an Adobe Certified Associate In Rich Media Communications Using Flash, I am both pleased but nauseous as I now join the millions of people around the world awaiting their Post 16 exam results. The waiting game is both cruel and mocking, resulting in mixed emotions of excitement and dread. If successful I will be able to continue my life plan, go off to University and then partake in a career in Games Programming. Fail, and I am destined to live in regret, for a life deserved but never reached, for opportunity missed and for the knowledge that I could have done more. It is JK Rowling who once said that, ‘Failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.’ So far, my life has been a cautious one, yet I have had my share of failures and can only hope that my upcoming IB results are not one of them. Funny isn’t it, how several numbers on a piece of paper can have such a life-altering effect.

So, for those waiting, please consider the wise words of Ayn Rand – ‘Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.’ With this in mind, know that if your results are not quite what you hoped for, that you can still end up where you want to be and more importantly who you want to be, it’ll just need a different approach and the belief to go on and keep fighting.