The Most Depressing Day of the Year.
Apparently today, Monday 21 January, is the most depressing day of the year, according to Dr. Cliff Arnall, a researcher from Cardiff University.
Arnall bases his yearly prediction on a formula he developed, which factors in the weather, consumer debt from holiday spending and failed New Year’s resolutions and arrives at that conclusion that we’ll hit rock bottom on Monday the 21st.
This is of course based on conditions in the northern hemisphere, where the middle of winter probably weighs the heaviest on many people’s minds, and has seemingly been keeping search engines busy.
In the digital age we’re likely to turn to search engines just as often as we would confide in friends and medical professionals to gauge our psychological state. If we think we’re suffering from a real bout of the blues or a mental crisis, we’re likely to Google the symptoms or find a chat group in the hopes of performing a self-diagnosis.
However as I write this in Sydney, it is overcast, cool (19°C), and raining intermittently; hardly summer like weather. But 21 January is pretty close to the most miserable day hereabouts though.
I usually find the work day after the Australia Day (gazetted for 26 January, but being marked this year on 28 January) holiday as being rock bottom though.
Australia Day weekend well and truly marks the end of the summer holidays. Schools re-open, and the remainder of the workforce who have thus far managed to avoid it, also return to work.
Only uni students have a little more respite (those not attending summer classes that is), with holidays running on through to the end of February. What a charmed life…
John, I don’t know about others, but its been certainly very stressful day for me. In Liverpool, its been dark, gloomy, sprinkling with cold rain,about 40mph wind ad I had to for an interview by the docks.
Interviews are no fun :/