In addition to being Monday, today is also the '' Blue Monday '' or the saddest day of the year. Since 2005, according to mathematical calculations, the saddest day of all the other 364 days (also this year one more) is on the third Monday of January of each year. To make it so was the travel company Sky Travel that just 15 years ago decided to "make" a little sad all those who wanted to believe it. Today after all these years we still believe in this or rather we still celebrate this sad day.
Blue Monday: is it all fake or is there something true?
Blue Monday therefore began with the Sky Travel advertising campaign, the travel agency that decided on January 18, 2005, to feel unhealthy that every year on the third Monday of January, according to mathematical calculations, turns out to be the most depressing day. Many factors lead to this conclusion like the weather, the debts, but also the days until Christmas, the monthly salary and much more including a coefficient that recalls the fact that each of us knows that "there is always a need to act".
The result only leads to a solution ie the third Monday of January is nothing but the "saddest day of the year". Those who have actually studied the whole equation have revealed that there is very little or nothing in the true and scientific as well as the mathematician. Cardiff University to which it belongs Cliff Arnall, psychologist who devised the equation, has distanced himself for some time. The equation makes no sense and is actually anti-scientific as well as ridiculous. According to science, the real one, which has actually studied the phenomenon of sadness, other factors such as psychology and economics determine this type of phenomenon.
Arnall himself confessed to have been contacted by the SKy Travel agency, which was looking for a scholar who would validate the idea of a scientific study with an "already written ending" as the saddest day of the year. The professor accepted the idea of doing it while admitting years after that he had done it explicitly for money just that money that many of his colleagues never accepted. In short, a real hoax created artfully, or rather for a fee.
Yet there are those who believe in it as in Great Britain where the issue is taken so seriously by the fact that, given in hand, work abstention increases and the fact that many non-profit organizations, first of all Mental Health Uk which deals with the mental health, they do their utmost with advice on how to overcome the most depressing Monday of the year. Which? Among the main ones to wear bright colors, exercise, eat well, listen to cheerful music and be sociable.
But if Blue Monday seems too much you know that there is also the Happyest Day or the "happiest day of the year" which always according to the formulas of Blue Monday would fall during the month of June. To be precise, the opposite version of the saddest day, always created by Arnall, would always be found on the days of the summer solstice, that is between 21 and 24 June. In this case perhaps all that remains is to laugh especially on this Monday day in January.