Melancholy

So either you know what melancholy means, or you think of watermelons, hence the thumbnail for this post. Besides that, today’s post will describe melancholy, a personal melancholic story, and the best advice I have about getting over a melancholy.

Melancholy, if you didn't know what it meant, is an unsolicited pensive feeling. In other words, feels bad man. It's an egregious feeling that, isn't extremely intense, but insidious, and sticks around for awhile. You feel lazy and jaded, you feel as if everything you're doing is kinda... pointless per say. While it's not depression, it's a very light feeling as stated earlier, it doesn't prohibit things to transpire in your life, however it just makes them feel less meaningful. It can be pushed away by a smile fairly easily, but the feeling will quickly return and engulf the serenity that you were feeling. The reason I am somewhat able to vividly describe this feeling, is because of an event that transpired recently.

This is more or less the reason, or inspiration, of this writing. On June 18, 2018, one of my favorite artists and musicians Jahseh Onfroy, also known as XXXTENTACION, was shot and killed at the young age of twenty. His ephemeral career touched millions, me included, after hearing of his passing the rest of the week (June 18 was a Monday) and even somewhat to now, I have a lingering pensive feeling (this was also the reason for the lack of a post last week), and I wasn’t, and s am not fond of the feeling so I delayed this weeks first topic in mind, and chose to write this topic instead, but now I would like to offer my meager advice. As I've already admitted, I still have a very faint melancholic feeling, but very early on I realized something. If I wanted, I could have gotten over it, if I just said to my brain, "stop." it would've been over. However, in my case of losing someone I thought highly of, I felt indebted to him, in the sense of, I had to feel something, even though I knew he wouldn't want me to feel that way. Besides me though, sorry for being self-centered lol, I do believe that's the first step to riding a melancholy. Once you understand and can get it through your mind, that you don't want to deal with the feeling anymore, and be honest with yourself, you should go on to doing something you enjoy doing. Those two things should fix it for the most part, but if worst comes to worst, talk to a friend, or someone you love, about anything, just talk, talk, and talk some more. It'll help more than you understand, a candid conversation solves a lot of problems. That's the best advice I feel I can give, hope it helps.

That’s about all, if you ever go through this melancholy feeling I give my sympathy, but hopefully this helped you understand melancholy, give my ethos from my story, and hopefully my meandering minds advice helps you; I wish you enjoyed I will see you next week, have a wonderful one, and peace.

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