Troubled Waters....or Down in the dumps?

Hmmm either or? same thing really isn't it? No...I don't think so. Sometimes it just happens, you get down in the dumps. Or you drift into troubled waters I suppose, well actually I think it is more like this: Troubled waters, you get hooked on drugs/alcohol weird sex addiction type stuff where you randomly go looking for Mr. Goodbar...or Miss Goodbar? eeeehya...anyhow, you get yourself into dangerous situations that require a bit more thought and action than simply pulling yourself up from being down in the dumps.
I remember being in troubled waters a few times in my life, lost , drifting no land in site and thinking "wow, this sucks, Im in a leaky rowboat, there's a storm approaching, I've lost one or both of my oars and I think I may have just been struck by lightening? and on top of it all I just broke a nail" but being in some sort of troubled water induced stupor I wasn't quite sure if I had been struck by lightening or not??? Ya ....I was just that troubled. It was in those times of wallowing in the depths of despair that I probably learned how to pray. Well, I mean I had probably learned how to pray in Sunday school when I was a little girl but I don't think it was quite the same prayer or the same conviction. I think those prayers worked though because somehow I saw the light begin to break through the storm clouds and with long and tedious self introspection I was even able to  believe that I was catching a glimpse of a rainbow!! Long story short without getting into any weird and embarrassing/ humiliating details I did see the sun shine again and I do on occasion see rainbows! Sometimes a Unicorn is riding down one of them (gag relfex).
Somehow, with thanks to the higher Powers that be I did survive my teens , oh and my twenties....uh and my early thirties (okay , okay I was a late bloomer! sheesh ) but that isn't to say I didn't or don't get down in the dumps! Yup sometimes I get down...way down and I just wallow in it!!!! Take a good old mud bath and lay there moaning and groaning and cursing all humanity for the horrific things they do. Usually the " down in the dumps" saga is precluded by being subjected to an episode of Family Ties....or something a bit more dire like witnessing a news clip reporting the inevitable decline of the Polar Bear population. Or Walrus' grounding themselves due to  lack of ice because it's all melted due to global warming and therefor will begin the process of starvation. It begs the question....can't they net a few Polar Bears and drop them near the Walrus' and let nature take its course? Not that i don't like walrus' however I do like Polar Bears also, except when Im sleeping in a tent somewhere north of Churchill and they appear suddenly drooling over me, Oh wait ...that's never happened and I probably never will be in a tent in Northern Manitoba so forget i said that....Okay but getting back to my suggestion, drop some Polar Bears, catch a bunch of fish, oh but not Cod cause they are declining and becoming extinct, so catch some other fish and drop them near the Walrus' and then once nature has taken its course bring in some vets to dart and sedate the bears and take them back somewhere way up north where the ice is still solid and uh.....shit....uh....and then....um...Well I dunno!!! Im not friggin David Suzuki here people!!! I didn't claim to have all the answers....ahhhh hmmm well, I got the bears and the walrus' that far so to avoid getting down in the dumps over the whole ordeal Im gonna go to my happy place. It's a nice place where Polar Bears tickle Walrus' tummies, rainbows are everywhere! Lions are giving Unicorns lick kisses and feeding them pomegranates and deer and antelope are playing in open meadows while skittles fall from the sky and nobody is ever hungry or thirsty. Oh and more importantly the waterfalls are actually gin and tonic.