Next time you start feeling down, resist that impulse and allow yourself to feel the emotion.
When I start feeling down, I play "You Never Give Me Your Money".
"It's basically just a term for the way people start feeling down as the days get shorter," she says.
Never doubt yourself, and, if you start feeling down, castigate yourself, and, if others try to put the slightest trace of doubt in your mind, rebuke them, and, should your rebuke not alter their speech, you may bring harm to them, even unto death, and, after they have died, feel free to arrange their rictus-stiffening mouths into happy hopeful smiles!
Knowing that you're not alone can be a big help though and it's definitely worth speaking to your friends and family if you start feeling down.
That was what made it so strange in the fall of 2008 when Schwartz started feeling run down.
Have you become more driven, more motivated, or just a happier person, or have you started feeling more down on yourself and less capable of fulfilling your potential?
Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe sums up the wreckage with great disdain, while Jackie MacMullan of ESPN.com marvels at how the end of an era has started feeling like being dropped down a well.
Mapes, a journalist who covers politics for The Oregonian, describes how he gained weight and started feeling a bit down when he was forced to exchange his 10-mile daily bike commute in Portland for a "super-sized, 50-mile" drive to the Legislature in Salem.
About halfway down, he started feeling a little more comfortable with the rope — everything is relative, he said — but not enough to remove his hands.
