Some of the hundred reasons why you should be depressed.

I am having a terrible time battling with my depressive episode (it's sounds clinical when depression is said in this manner. Don't you think?). So, I am inviting more and more people out there to join me in my quest by pointing out some possible reason why you should be melancholic as I am.

1. Angels and Demons (the movie) almost made you cry because it fell short of your expectations. You feel like they murdered Dan Brown right in front of you. Yes you can even smell the blood. Seeing Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon almost caused you a Prinzmetal angina attack. As if it was not enough, the girl who played Vittoria made you wanna pee every ten minutes. Then you saw Ewan McGregor in a habit. You fainted.

2. You go to your favorite salon to get your monthly hair spa. You noticed that every guy you came across with were sporting a straight anime-like do. Some influences from the Koreans, you muttered. You sat on your beauty chair. Women of all ages were sporting a familiar bob. Then your hairstylist smiled and said "I know you want to have your hair done like Katrina. Some men came here to get that Hayden look."

3. You're having your dinner at home, a special one with your favorite dessert and some wine because after all you worked really hard (this day in particular). You turned the TV on to see the latest news. You're just in time. They flashed a video of a dead body enclosed in a steel cabinet after it was tossed in the middle of the ocean two years ago. You just lost your appetite.

4. You're married to a rich good-looking man for so long. You're living a happy married life except that his philandering caused you your health. You just found out that you have one of those STDs. You called your lawyer only to find out that he's sleeping with your husband and your marriage was a fraud. (this one is a work of fiction. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are not).

5. You voted for Congressman X last election. You even vouched for his honesty and cause. Yesterday, you went to his office to ask for a little favor. He looked at you and said this in his monotone voice "I'm sorry but I'm still not done with your wife. Try calling back later."

6. You've been working your ass on the upcoming product launching. You even broke up with your boyfriend because he claimed that you do not spend enough time with him. You canceled your 7:00 pm meeting with another client because finishing this project was your main objective. Then suddenly your boss tells you that you're off the team because Miss X from the main office will fill in your shoe. He then gives you the project which you often refer to as "of utmost abhorrence."

7. Your then-boyfriend redundantly rejects every possible option that you've offered to save the almost-4 years of being together. You begged, cried and even contorted your already misshaped personality to cater his need for space and soul-searching. He heroically claimed that he's just not yet ready to commit (now that's really awful). No e-mails, no calls, no messages from him. Then you realized that he gladly entertains messages from "a friend" who fondly gives him all his whims that you cannot possibly afford and tells you that he doesn't like her juggling-guys acts. You know you're not a moron so you think of more swabe ways to deal with things. After all, he already summoned all his minions to make people think that you're the real-deal b*tch. So you tried to OD yourself with some OTC drugs you bought weeks ago. Then something came up. You opted to reschedule the grand finale. ( this one too is a work of fiction. Only 1,2, and 3 are based on facts).