I had that suburban malaise you get, and I think my appetite for music or for any form of creativity was at its most heightened then".
The malaise you've been experiencing is by no means extraordinary, but it is perhaps containable if the space you inhabit were better suited to living.
I think we are still stuck in a post-crisis malaise — you see it less in the U.S. but you can clearly see it in Europe or Japan.
It is such a toxic, horrible object that to watch it would be to sentence yourself to a malaise you can't quite place.
That predication is an exact recapitulation of the fundamental emotional malaise that you start out with.
The answer -- the reason professional macroeconomists are grimly fascinated by Japan's economic malaise, and you should at least be interested -- is that Japan's sad tale is a reminder that the roots of prosperity may be shallower than we like to think.
The hangover, sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, overexercise and dehydration will far outweigh any afterglow, regardless of its actual causes, and guarantee that your "midweek sub-acute depression and anxiogenic effects" will be every part the living hell of self doubt and listless malaise that you were fearing.
The hangover, sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, over exercise, and dehydration will far outweigh any afterglow, regardless of its actual causes, and guarantee that your "midweek sub-acute depression and anxiogenic effects" will be every part the living hell of self-doubt and listless malaise that you were fearing.
When you were 27, before you embarked on this string of sacred journeys, you moved to Berlin to escape a kind of hard-to-define feeling of malaise, noting that you "always had a precocious sense of crisis".
They have--the strikes have declared, have explained, the position or the complaints, the malaise, the--you can say even the aspirations, the hopes, of several segments of the Egyptian society.
If this is how you're feeling, perhaps consider the possibility that your preoccupation with your friends' success is a side effect of some other malaise and, if you can address that, your status anxieties will fade, too.
