PrincessB

I don't want or mean to be patroising in any way so please accept my apologies if I offend you, but I feel misery is a powerful emotion that we should embrace with all our heart, and only then will we realise it's what makes us human, it's what makes elation so joyful, what makes us stronger. Everyone posts here saying 'help, I'm miserable' (I paraphrase massively, I know it's much more complicated than that) - but being miserable can be good!

I am grateful for my misery, I am grateful that I can walow in self-pity and know that I can and will eventually drag myself out of the slump and appreciate the wonders of life.

I am thankful that others have been miserable before me - without it most of the great literature as we know it would not have been even conceived let alone born into our world.

I am grateful that I can read a book or watch a movie or play and cry and cry and cry. I am grateful that I can pour my heart out to a pen and a piece of paper and it won't judge me. (And I know i can go back and laugh at it later when my perspective changes.)

I am thankful that I can feel hurt and pain for those who are suffering, that I am not a rock, that I feel healthy human emotions.

This Christmas is feeling pretty miserable at the moment, but I think that's traditional. So I'm laughing at my misery, and knowing I can wallow for a while longer yet...

I hope this makes sense! I hope you can embrace your misery too this festive season!

- Grincho x