Melancholy. The key to Pandora’s box.

Melancholy. The key to Pandora’s box.

Have you ever had a sudden feeling of sadness, devastation, some kind of depression, a mood similar to a gloomy autumn rainy day?

This happens to me, today is just such a day. Moist, viscous, greyish gloomy. I want to lie under a blanket, drink sweet tea with lemon, listen to melodic music and sniffle while watching melodramas.

A few years ago I was afraid of such a state as if it were fire. Sensing notes of melancholy, I tried to run away at breakneck speed, keep myself busy…