Dancing In The Dark
" I get up in the evenin' And I ain't got nothin' to say I come home in the mornin' I go to bed feelin' the same way" -Bruce Springsteen I have a relationship with depression. It's not a terribly productive relationship, but we don't always get to choose these things, I suppose. I couldn't tell you when it started for me, or the mechanisms that make it do what it does, or when it does the things that it does, but I can tell you that I've spent a lot of time trying to balance my own perspective on what it is, what it means for me and my life, and where that line intersects between control and the illusion of control. And I've never been much of a diary/journal guy. The level of vigilance and commitment that it takes to do that has always eluded me (this is a recurring theme of mine) but for reasons that I'll get into here, it's time for me to give it a try. So I'm taking this time and this space to see if I can parse some o...