Dealing With PFD....

When I reached office on Monday, I realized that this will be a 5 day week and that depressed me immediately. Mondays all by themselves are the depressing and most difficult days for me; it takes about 4 cups of black coffee to keep me in my senses, so a Monday at the start of a 5 day week is still more depressing. But all weeks are 5 day weeks for most of us, so what was so special about this one? It came after two 4 day weeks that was the problem. The excitement and the joyous feeling of Christmas and New Year are left behind and what is ahead now, is a week in which we will be working for 5 days continuously without any anticipation of parties or celebrations. Happy days are over it seems. I have a name for this type of feeling, which we usually have after a festive season is over; I call it “Post Festive Depression or PFD”. Festivals are meant to bring joy and happiness in our lives by breaking the monotony of the same, they surely do but along with that they bring Post festival blues, which are very hard to get over with. I assume that all of us suffer from this disorder, some do for lesser extent than others, but all of us do. We feel sad and dejected because we know that the monotonous life is back on track. The festivities around us stop, the balloons and the ribbons in the office are taken off the wall and replaced by the charts and plans again, the realization of this being over, dawns on us mercilessly when we suddenly see a surge in the number of official mails in our inbox, which has been lying almost vacant since last 10 days or so, filled only with colorful mails of best wishes from our nears and dears. So, how to deal with this then, shall we just worry about the past that happy days are over or should we stop thinking about it altogether and go on with our business as usual. I think both are not possible, we can’t help thinking about the good time we just had and also can’t be in that mode for long, because as Mr. Shakespeare has said “the show must go on”. I have no particular solution to this, but I have my own way of dealing with it, I will share that with you, it may help. Whenever I am feeling depressed and obviously sleepy, I tell myself, get a cup of coffee. Coffee is one thing which can make you get over this bad phase faster than anything else, that’s why offices have so many coffee machines installed at different places, and I am a person who doesn't have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without it! Jokes apart, I think this PFD can be dealt with, by just believing that the good times are not over, they have moved ahead and the moment, the calendar page starts turning they will be back, ad will bring same joy with them as we experienced some days back, till then I think, “Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another coffee”.