Apparently, today is Blue Monday – The most depressing day of the year based on running out of money due to January being a long month, over spending and eating over Christmas, the weather etc etc.
In reality, it was a marketing piece by a travel company to get people to book a holday and have something to look forward to.
They did a whole feature on ways to not feel blue on morning TV earlier. One way of not feeling blue is to not watch mainstream TV, if I hadn’t while visiting my Mum, I wouldn’t have been aware I was meant to be sad today.
However, without watching main stream TV, we wouldn’t have had the nostalgia and the joy that the Gladiators brought to us on Saturday night.
It took us hours to settle the kids down afterwards, they have their own Gladiator names; Shock Dragon and Crusher. There were a lot of variations on every theme to get to them, it was proper Saturday night fun.
Don’t base how happy you are in life around what the media, social or main stream tell you. Spend your time being so busy living your life that the views of the media can be simply for education and entertainment purposes.
You are the most important person in your life, maybe it’s time to start making you your priority.
Darren “not blue” Checkley
