Rain Rain go away.

You know.  I used to like rain.  The light tapping on the window, even a downpour to me was the best way to go to sleep on earth!  Currently we are in day 4 of rain.  It is flooding, everything is saturated and I'm over it.

I didn't realize what a role the weather would play with my mood until now but oh my yes depression is alive and well.  Thus the stimulus of today's entry.

Depression is alive and well in all of us.  Some might not show it as much as others, it might not effect some as much as it does others but given the perfect storm we can all go spiraling out of control and hit rock bottom.  With that in mind I want to give you a few things to combat it all around.

1. Let's say you are alone and no one has called and you are feeling sorry for yourself that no one likes you and you have no friends and you are quite sure that people think you smell.  Well, then pick up the phone and call a few people.  Maybe they are having a bad day too and the ring of the phone might just be what the doctor ordered for them as well and you will be their medicine and the conversation will be yours...if you call all the friends you know and no one is answering it is time to reevaluate whether or not every time you call someone you are the wet blanket of despair which is why no one is answering therefore you need to work on your neediness and go hug a puppy or something positive.

2. What if you don't get out much and your husband is the only adult you get to interact with all day and by the time he gets home he is exhausted and irritable which in turn escalates to an all out verbal brawl of what all is wrong with his world and how you are indeed doing absolutely nothing to fix it and here is ABC of what you should be doing differently and he would like on his desk in the morning a powerpoint presentation of how you are going to fix all the aforementioned items which may or may not bother him tomorrow but you are not allowed access to that information.  You know what?  Get off your sorry sad horse and start working on the things that bother him.  I KNOW!!  All of these items are not even up to you but as far as you are able become a servant to your husband hoping to somehow make his load a little lighter and hopefully he in turn will see that you are trying and will change his pain in the rear ways.  If that doesn't work go hug the puppy again.

3. If you feel as if no one appreciates or even notices anything you do and you are well aware that they think that you do absolutely nothing all day long even though you literally never stop to even eat lunch and if you did indeed do nothing for a week they would most definitely immediately understand all that you do for them.  I'm not saying that they will appreciate it anymore I'm just saying that for a brief moment they would have noticed.  Just remember you aren't doing anything you do for the praise and adoration that you might achieve you are doing all these things because you love your family and if they are so unappreciative for the things that you do then that is their problem not yours and one day when they are in your shoes they will ultimately realize how much you sacrificed for them and probably they will give you a puppy.

We are all on this planet together.  We must share the air as it were.  If you are going to be a grouch and an unappreciative pain in the rear well, then you are putting toxic evil fumes into a room that will only cause people to have a bad day.  A fart if you will.  If you are selfless and understand that others need to feel love and kindness around them just as much as you do well then you are the pleasant aroma that is coming from the kitchen on a cold winter's day.

So, what are you going to be today?  A fart?  I hope not.