Dear Dáithí: How can I break out of this post-summer malaise?

"There is nothing worse in this world than when someone is telling you what to do, and phrases like “start fresh” is some kind of Americanism that has made its way into Irish life and all it does is pour fuel onto the fire."

Meanwhile, I’m here in my post-summer daze, staring at a mountain of laundry and wondering if it’s too early to go back to bed. The truth is, I’m wrecked.

Everywhere I bloody turn this month, I’m being told to “start fresh”, sort the house, start a diet, set new goals, join a gym, declutter the fecking attic. 

My two best friends are signing up for a language class, and my sister has got into meal prepping, she keeps putting them on our family WhatsApp group like she’s auditioning for a cooking show.