weather veins...

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okay seriously this has got to stop. everyone i know is feeling shitty EXCEPT the ones in relationships that were started in the last month or two.

everyone.

they're depressed. they're maudlin. they're dying of alcohol poisoning (hi elle!), they're broke, i'm broke, they're not dating, they are dating, they're defeated, they're hopeless, their houses are robbed, they're deleting their blogs, their marriages are ending or their relationships are dying or they're near suicidal or whatfuckinever.

and you know something? i care deeply about every person i referenced above (but it's no one else's business who the unlinked folks are) and I want every single one of them to feel safe and comfortable telling me the things that are happening in their lives or their state of mind. Happy OR sad. Cheery OR angry. Optomisitc OR pessimistic.

Really I don't care. i just want my cared for folks to feel safe telling me anything.

That said. Dudes I think we're on some kind of downward spiral of reinforced negativity. And I'm contributing to it. I haven't done a cheerful post in days. Okay there was the eric lindros moment but still that was more me ranting because I can't believe that I like eric lindros... AND that i admitted it to my blog.

I really think that a large part of the effect is caused by a sudden and drastic shift in the weather. We (us northeasterners) were all wearing shorts and t's less than two weeks ago and suddenly it's cold and rainy and most definetely fall. It's DARK out when I go teach in the morning.

DARK OUTSIDE!

Not to mention that the air is moist and the leaves are falling the the colours they are a changing. I think there's something in the veins of we northeasterners that causes us to get a little miserable in the fall. And I think this is especially nasty this year because it's a drastic shift rather than a gentle slope. We fell off a weather cliff so to speak.

And for a change the shift sort of happened all over the continent at once. My friend in north carolina tells me that fall hit there recently as well. I believe someone in cali mentioned a shift there too.

I think that humans drastically underestimate the effect that changing weather actually has on us. I think we go along blissfully and pay no attention to the weather except as it pertains to what we're wearing and then we wonder at our moods. Any sort of barometric shift will cause a response in the body and it won't necessarily be positive.

I told a friend of mine this and he said that he didn't believe the weather had anything to do with it and then went back to being maudlin. I fail to see how the weather can be anything but connected. If it weren't involved then at least a few people would be cheery and not maudlin right? Someone other than the newly sexed would be feeling positive?

Maybe I'm just reflecting my own mood into the mirrors of the people that I see around me?

Maybe I'm not?

I just think that our bodies are a lot more connected into the energy fields around us than we realise... and I also think that that's cool as hell except when it's doing this!

gotta go teach... be well folks.