According to Welsh busybody, Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff, today is the worse day of the year. By Dr. Arnall’s calculations during the month of January people are brought down by the weather and the fact that they have accumulated massive debts during the holidays. He also argues that by this point people are beginning to break their New Year’s resolutions and thus feel like failures. Such factors come to a head by January 23rd and thus today has been deemed the worse day of the year.

In a sense Arnall is right, those irresponsible wretches racking up huge bills that they can’t afford, should feel bad, those people who break their resolutions are failures. Does that make today any worse? No! These people are universal failures regardless of the day.
According to Arnall this is a time when people have little to look forward to. How about breathing, how about family and about faith, how about 2nd chances, which each and every day represents? Those that have nothing to look forward to, it can be safe to say, have probably made nothing of their lives and thus January 23rd is probably no different than July 23rd or October 23rd.

Arnall has devised an intricate formula, presumably designed to ensure his tenure at the University of Cardiff.

W+ (D-d) x TQ
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M x NA

The variables involved in this ridiculously meaningless equation are the breaking resolutions or (Q)uiting a bad habit, lack of (M)otivation and (NA), the need to take action, whatever that means.

The University of Cardiff must be truly proud of this braggart for devising perhaps one of the most meaningless pieces of scientific drivel as yet created by man. Anyone who allows their mood to be dictated by factors such as the weather isn’t much of a person in the first place. Life is what you make of it. Perhaps Dr. Arnall’s formula holds some validity when evaluating the lives of certifiable failures, but those who make responsible decisions in life and strive to achieve should have no problem dealing with today or any day, short of a real personal tragedy, which consists of more than a credit card bill or a rainy day.
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