Filed under: autism, disability, Gardening, Parenting, social media | Tags: asperger's, Christmas, depression, fatigue, Halloween, redundancy, winter
I really am more tired in winter. I am starting this on the bus to work, I do not enjoy travelling to work in the dark. Tonight is less pleasant than usual, the bus is full of children in their Halloween costumes. I hate being surrounded by noisy and excitable children, personally I would ban Halloween, come back Oliver Cromwell all is forgiven.
I seem to go into limbo during winter, the wet weather keeps me out of the garden and the lack of sunlight prevents me from adequately renewing my energy. That I work at night and sleep by day just makes things life more challenging, it is a trade off of sanity against health. On the plus side I have a full spectrum light box plugged in and ready; I think this year I shall start using it earlier, some years I don’t need it until after Christmas.
Christmas, that’s another reason to bring back Cromwell. While I appreciate that some people need a break in the midwinter, I find the enforced jollity tedious. The goodwill I have for all people is expressed in doing no evil, I see no reason to socialise with them as well. The only reason I see to celebrate midwinter is that it marks the end of the declining light and the start of the move towards Spring.
Today I received my formal notice of redundancy, it is nice to have something to which to look forward. Soon I shall not have to travel to work in the cold, the rain and the dark, I suppose there is an upside to redundancy.
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