To Those Who Don’t Feel ‘Right’ Today

Today, something feels off.

Actually, you’ve been feeling off for a while.

Over the past few days, weeks, maybe even months you just haven’t felt ‘right’. Something has gone awry in yourself or your life, but you just can’t quite put your finger on it.

Your routines have slacked; you feel driven, motivated and excited but that energy isn’t enough to compel you into action. You have that bubbling feeling alive in your stomach: it flurries and tingles at the thought of a bright future, yet your present self is unreactive to its dreamy whispers.

Something’s just not right today. It wasn’t right yesterday, and it hasn’t been right for a while now.

You keep exercising, drinking water and eating healthy, hoping that it’s a mere nutritional deficiency. You don’t feel sad, per se, just flat, so there’s nothing a doctor can do about it. They’d probably tell you to get more sun which, for a huge chunk of us, that won’t be possible for a few more months.

Still, it was sunny at the weekend and you felt this way, regardless.

You’ve picked up a few books which sounded enticing to you but, alas, you can’t get into them. Every word you read reminds you you’re missing…