A nice long shower really does do me a world of good, allows me to take myself out of the flow of things for an instant, to take stock of my current feelings, thoughts and emotions, and to perhaps realize that the way I feel regarding a certain thing isn't necessarily isolated to that thing alone but rather symptomatic of a larger trend, perhaps a reaction to the way things around me have been seeming to go of late, and that I may perhaps be, against all odds, rhyme or reason, down in the dumps.

I'm lucky, I guess, to have been able to come to that conclusion myself, having relatively quickly run through a string of negative thoughts before somehow realizing that something was not quite right, that some other thing was probably affecting my mood and hence my perception of affairs, which gave me the opportunity to arrest the downward trend then and there, and now allows me to tackle the issue at hand.

Now, I suppose it sounds very easy on paper, but you only have to look at how things could have gone, have already gone, and probably are going in some other cases to understand that emotions and your mental state of being are by no means easy things to get a grasp on, it's not only a matter of - to borrow that old story - knowing where to chalk the cross, fixing the problem is a whole new can of worms altogether. But at least I know this, at least I've managed to stave off the downward spiral, and hopefully with some luck, will be able to get back to a better state of fine-ness, all in good time