Melancholy is Peculiar!

Sometimes I wake up too early on a holiday with that melancholy mood and thats when I sit down with myself, to write or try to read.

There is a feeling that when all the business, in the sense of busy-ness, is taken away, when completely alone, there is really nothing there. There is no voice to talk to amongst myself.

There is nothing within to make me smile or push me forward. Strange, considering that looking on I'm sure it looks that I'm an entirely sensible, well-travelled, well-educated(ish) kind of person. It's hard to really understand that however I feel at this moment isn't how I always felt, and it isn't how you will always feel; that even in ten minutes time someone may come into the room and I will have completely changed course.

Not in an insincere way, not that I am trying to seem like a cheery amenable person. Just that I only exist when someone is there. Even now it doesn't seem reasonable to have had all the thoughts that have led to these words without any conscious conversation, just with them spilling out from some void.

It really is peculiar.