Eclipse

It is no fun feeling blah for no apparent reason.  Maybe what I feel is unique to me - or it is a common human condition.  I don’t know.  All I know is it happens.
Typically, I am going along and all is well.  I can go weeks and months seemingly from strength to strength.  Then one day for no reason I can put a finger on, I am as flat as a pancake. 
It seems at such times I spend time thinking about all the things that are untrue.  All the things that could be misconstrued.  I have heard it said never doubt in the dark what was true in the light.  I hold to that big time, but it does not mean that doubts will not arise in the dark.  Not doubts about my faith, but doubts I know are untrue about my personality and abilities.
To me an analogy I once heard stands true and I appropriate the principle big time.
I read it in a book about how so often a planetary eclipse is like how we are.  In an eclipse one planet can go in front of the other - completely obscuring the light source.  What I read was that often the way I feel can be represented by the dark planet.  I do not deny the feelings I may be experiencing exist, but I do deny they are the totality of who I am.  I am both the dark and light planet with a bridge collapsing behind me while on my journey from the dark to the light planet (that bit is from a song/poem I love, "and everything you are, is making my heart into a bridge from which I may get back from exile, and grown man, and now the bridge is breaking.")
Just because I think something does not make it true.  I reject what destroys and attempts to pull me down.  It was decades ago but I do remember someone saying something that to me is as true today as it was at the time.  “Never make a decision when you are down.” 
Even while not denying the feelings I am having, I know that they alone do not represent who I am.  Who I am and aspire to be is represented by the light planet.   I am confident that all will work out.  That everything is under control.  That what I need to do is hang in there. 
There can be times I know I have not got it wrong, but my feelings will scream at me that I have got it wrong.  There are a few things I hold on to at such times, but it is really reassuring that like an eclipse it will pass.
The sun always shines again, and storms are a part of life.  They are not the time to make changes.  They are the time to hang in there.  Eclipses and storms have a limited life span.