Doldrums

I had to research it. What is a doldrum besides a slump in mood? It's a place where ships sit endlessly due to the stillness that occurs on the sea due to the northeasterly and southwesterly trade winds meeting. Apparently, the winds are weak and variable, or completely non-existent, leaving a sailing vessel stranded for days or weeks.

It seems I am in the Doldrums. The wind is non-existent and I am floating on and at the complete will of the sea. I am going nowhere ... or so it seems when a flurry of activity suddenly stops and all you hear is silence, all you know is the sound of your own voice, and you long for the familiar noise of activity, something that says that life is moving forward, that you are alive, not dead, and there is a purpose to your days.

Day after day, day after day, 

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean. ~Coleridge

I don't despair because I know that: "To everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under heaven." Eccl. 3:1