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I\u2019m sitting here on a Monday looking out my office window. It\u2019s currently 18 degrees outside under gray skies. I\u2019m searching for something to talk to you about that you might find of some interest. I\u2019m not finding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things feel kind of flat this morning. The Sunday masses, RCIA class, and two baptisms are all done. Covid concerns are popping up every where it seems. The cold and gray will be here for what? 3? 4 more months? I\u2019m starting to get into a mood. Ever happen to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s talk about \u201cmoods\u201d. Webster is always a good starting place: \u201cMood: a temporary state of mind. A pervading quality of feeling at a particular moment.\u201d They come in all shades, don\u2019t they. Good ones, happy ones, sad, bored, excited. But the ones we talk about the most, are the bad ones. (Just like the news we watch on TV, good news doesn\u2019t get the headlines.) We expect to feel good\/okay in the normal course of things and pay it no attention. It\u2019s the bad moods we\u2019re most aware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it depends on how old you are to see how bad moods can affect us. Remember when as a child, you took sick to your stomach?, Christmas failed to bring a new bike?, a rained\u0016out baseball game? The world was about to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teenagers collapse at the sign of a pimple, a \u201cC\u201d in English class, being laughed at in the cafeteria, getting snubbed by the \u201cin group\u201d. Later on in life, disappointments with work, a failed relationship, ones \u201cstatus\u201d compared to others can send us off, not just to a mood, but to a permanent way of viewing life as a disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combine that with the way we are wired (some have a natural tendency to see life\u2019s cup as half empty) and soon we discover there needs to be a governor that regulates and disciplines our moods. Otherwise they carry us off. Our feelings begin to tell us who we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With age, we begin to discover that\u2019s not true. We\u2019ve been up and down and all around enough to realize \u201cthis too shall pass\u201d. Think back. Aren\u2019t you glad you didn\u2019t act on your first impulse? You didn\u2019t quit whatever; you didn\u2019t make that angry phone call; you waited till the mood passed. And it did pass. Didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here are some tips from an old man about how to deal with bad moods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n