The photo below, from the often very moving PostSecret site, is happily much more extreme than how I would see my own situation, but the fact remains that, on many occasions, perhaps more work could indeed save us from despair and that a lot of time when we feel down, even if we're not depressed in a medical sense, what we're really experiencing is a lack of sustained effort and purpose.
A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.