Doldrums

The Doldrums!  

Everyone has them..  Johnny Cash made a career speaking about the Man in Black, singing from Folsom Prison.  Artists have dark periods in their life.  Life has a dark side that can be acknowledged.  It's not all gypsy Sun, moon and rainbows.  Depression is real.  anger is real.  But so is the sun.  I'm pretty sure it will rise tomorrow.  We were never meant to hold on.  Especially to the doldrums.  

doldrums |ˈdōldrəmz; ˈdäl-; ˈdôl-|plural noun ( the doldrums)low spirits; a feeling of boredom or depression : color catalogs will rid you of February doldrums.• a period of inactivity or a state of stagnation : the mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years.• an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.ORIGIN late 18th cent. (as doldrum [dull, sluggish person] ): perhaps from dull , on the pattern of tantrums.