The Darkness of The Day by Darin Hadley    Have you ever felt like certain days are darker than others? It could be totally sunny outside and yet something uneasy fills your mind. Do you get a strange feeling when you pass a cemetery and you see a casket sitting alone waiting to be buried? I do. The cemetery feeling is the same feeling I feel on those darker days in life. If you said yes to those questions, you could be suffering from depression. We are currently performing a medical research study on depression at the Hadley Institute for Personal Well-being.    I’m just kidding, but you’ve all heard those commercials. I’m serious when I say some days are a little stranger than others. I’m a fairly joyful person most the time, but sometimes I experience these days where it seems as if something bad is going to happen. I’ve talked with other happy and normal people that get the same feeling on certain days. I have never experienced the feeling on a gloomy day that I can recall. Gloomy days sometimes make you feel a little down, but these days aren’t down days. They are a strange phenomenon as far as I am concerned. I refer to these particular days as “The Darkness of The Day.”    I usually don’t experience these dark days at night, and hence the “day” in my title. I believe all of us have a sort of connection to one

another, a sort of binding force or one spirit that intertwines us all together like a big bowl of spaghetti. I’m not going the direction of Star Wars, but it would be a good example. I remember waking up on Sept. 11, 2001, and having a strange feeling, one of the so called “Darkness of The Days.” I hadn’t even watched the news that morning and yet I felt as if something was terribly wrong. Sure enough, I learned a bit later that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I’m not saying I’m psychic by any means, but I believe I could feel the sorrow or horror that many were feeling. Days like that are extremely rare, but I don’t think the dark feelings have to come from something of that magnitude. I felt the same darkness on the day my grandmother died. Something didn’t feel right and later that morning I learned of her passing. It could be coincidence that I felt weird on those particular days, or it could mean something. Some days I experience the same feeling and nothing happens that I know of. Maybe on those days something in a far off place has happened and I just didn’t know about it.    Other people I know have experienced this phenomenon as well. I could just be in the dumps on those days, and, walla, something happens! I doubt it is that simple. I believe a lot of things can’t be explained in this world. This dark feeling is possibly a part of our human instincts or wiring. You may be reading this right now and have no idea what I’m talking about. I understand if you don’t. Some people like me just sit around all day thinking up weird stuff like this, and others choose to ignore it. If you ever have one of those days where it seems weird or dark, I challenge you to watch the news and maybe you will find that you have some connection with something that has happened. You may find that you also experience the darkness of the day. Darin is Editor of Outcry E-zine, an aspiring screenwriter, and proud daddy. He still has to this day, no bum.

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