The are clouds but there is also chocolate. Your mission is to find pleasure or passion that is independent of what the world tells you that you should be feeling. It is okay not to feel "happy" or "joyful"
It is not okay to constantly beat yourself up about it. Find your safe place. Internally or externally.
Resources Not Exactly Mentioned:
- Dark Night of the Soul poem translated http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/09/saint-john-of-cross-dark-night-of-soul.html
- Alternate translation with English and Spanish version of the Poem http://josvg.home.xs4all.nl/cits/lm/stjohn01.html
- The Story of Chocolate http://www.thestoryofchocolate.com
- The World of Chemicals http://www.worldofchemicals.com/113/chemistry-articles/chemistry-behind-the-sweet-lure-of-chocolate.html
- Science Direct - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0570178311000212
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