When a cake is not enough to beat the bad start of the day

You get up and things just start on the wrong foot. And then they get worse. Now, if you are me and need creativity for your work when things go bad you are swamped. Work is out of question and the day is looming ahead as a great big black spider pulling you into some impossible net.

I don't know what you do when you hit the rock bottom but I need massive amounts of sugar! So, the other day I ran down into the kitchen and after taking care of my fur babies I attacked the sweet department and made a Brownie, massive chocolate and sugar dose. I also ate up half of it to make me nearly sick with the heavy cake. Then of course, I still did not have a remedy that would turn the tide. What to do?

I have to create a diversion not to sink deep into melancholy. So, my favourite escapism beckoned me in the form of films. I was looking over the films available and realized how much rubbish is out there. Now, what they call films today is just disturbing.

In despair I turned back to the good old looked down-on 80s and 90s for watching something again rather than make the mistake of another day and watch a brand new film promising to be great for the actors in it Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, and turning out to be a nightmare of a film that destroyed my afternoon. So, browsing among the films on offer I came upon good old fun in the form of Tin Cup 1996 with the cast of Kevin Kostner, young, Rene Russo at her peak and Don Johnson also at his smashing gorgeous days. So, I settled down for it and I enjoyed it again.

Did it help? Yeah, a bit. But not enough. I did it anyway. I remembered suddenly that I saw somewhere about the new Karate Kid ( Karate Kid legends 2025) being out with good old Jackie Chan, my beloved fun-action martial art star of my childhood and young age as well as throughout my life, and I just got down to watch that too. Oh, it was just a wow factor! I love the choreography of his films and his creativity. I even looked up a bit more on the story and its origin and given that it was a hit when I was a kid, well, a teenager with the first Karate kid coming out in 1986 I was pulled into it, again. Dear me, do I never change? No, I don't, well I do but not in all things. I have always appreciated martial films and I still do.

Well, as usual I lost all sense of time, in the middle of the last fight my friend rang in. It was our time to do our weekly chat. I apologized and finished the film.

Then we had a good talk and the day ended on a positive note after all. Not creative, oh no(!), not working, but at least not miserable. Did it help? Sort of. Would I change my approach? Nah. It is just me. Working or not I just do the same old tricks to try to distract myself from what is not working that day.

What do you do? Are you like me or you have bulletproof ideas to change the mood or perhaps the whole set up of your day after a bad start?