Ten Ways to Cope with Winter Depression or the Wand Which Can Clear the Sky

For those who don't have summer all over the year and from time to time experience depression in the period of long nights and tiny days.

Here are ten ways to cope with winter (or any other kind of) depression:

1. Choose the softest armchair in your flat/house/office (if the situation is serious, kick the boss out of his place), comfortably place yourself in it, close your eyes... and scream

2. Don't be a snob and finally buy that unnaturally expensive bar of Swiss chocolate, on which you used to look woth admiration and sweet feeling in your mouth - you worth it.

3. Try to count all the gray hairs (if any) and keep yourself busy getting rid of them. By the end of the first 5 minutes you will be forget about the depression, as well as about any common sense of your action.

4. Take your favorite CD and finally let your neighbors know that you've always liked rock-n-roll.

5. Try to find positive things in the winter season, as skating, snowboarding, glunwine-drinking, holidays, sleeping, long-lasting reading, or funny-hats-wearing

6. Stare at the photos of you and family/friends in bikini close to the sea/ocean/lake. Dreaming of summer makes it come much sooner.

7 Make some rituals with jumping around the fire, wild dances and prays to the Sun. Will it help? Nope. But time will be running much faster in this case.

8. Make a spontaneous party. Friends, drinks, snacks and music makes great effect altogether. *

9. Fall in love. The hardest way of all 10. In this case you can forget about winter stress and get ready for a new, concerning heart aches, love fever and sleepless nights.

10. If all ten don't work for you, book a flight to a country which can be proud with enormous number of sunny days. Goodbye to winter and hello summer! * try to find out beforehand if the season of rains is left behind. You do not wamt to leave one foggy day for another, don't you?

All that is written above is tested on two human beings and one hamster.

P.S: Not a slightest idea whether it helped the hamster, but can tell for sure that human beings got out of the depression with a speed of tornado, and felt much better on the whole.

If the situation is critical, just sit down, take a deep breath and remember one thing - spring will come. And it will come sooner that you expect it to.