“I don’t like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand back and get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation"
Churchill knew it and named it his "black dog" following Samuel Johnson, who like many other great men suffered from the disease of manic depression.
I have decided to read Churchill's first book "A Malakand Field Force" written in 1898 when he was a 22 year old lieutenant in the British army and War correspondent sending home despatches about about a rebellion in India's Afghan frontier.
This is part of a book challenge for 2021 and will expand my reading.
I like many others have experienced times when I feel my own “black dog” prowling. Churchill never allowed the times of despair keep him from a life of productivity. As part of my non New Years resolution
I will learn from a great man and persevere.