Mood Elevation
With all due respect for your amazing knowledge of the universe, I wish to ask why you use the word “hopelessly” so frequently. Please don’t yell at me, I’m only wondering.
———- from Erich Korte of Boise, Id
OK, so I have some problems with mood elevation. Most of the time, mine is hovering a few inches off the basement floor, but now, thanks to a mixture of St. John’s Wort and common cough syrup, I’m back up to where I should have been all along! Now thoughts race in and out of my brain at lightning speed, and sometimes I’m so moved by the simple beauty of the present moment that I fall weeping onto the nearest lab machine or assistant. You’re absolutely right, things are never “hopeless”. “Really, really bad” or “Imminently disastrous” might be better descriptors.
OK, so I have some problems with mood elevation. Most of the time, mine is hovering a few inches off the basement floor, but now, thanks to a mixture of St. John’s Wort and common cough syrup, I’m back up to where I should have been all along! Now thoughts race in and out of my brain at lightning speed, and sometimes I’m so moved by the simple beauty of the present moment that I fall weeping onto the nearest lab machine or assistant. You’re absolutely right, things are never “hopeless”. “Really, really bad” or “Imminently disastrous” might be better descriptors. 