a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment […]

… cause “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde Rocks!

If you come early, the bus is late.
If you come late…… the bus is still late.

I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson - 1850