That's life. That's what all the people say. You're riding high in April, shot down in May (Frank Sinatra)

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That last week of term at school was a struggle. In that, at times during the week I had to struggle to maintain my relentless positivity.

I'm not going to detail what caused that feeling - time to move onwards, because I can't change anything about last week.

At the time though, remembering the monkeys on the back adage helped (the basic idea is not to take on other people's monkeys), so did a sense of perspective - sayings that I trot out to other people:

You've got to take the crunchy with the smooth.

Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.

Life is a roller coaster.

Two weeks' study break helps as well.

See you on the other side.