Resolve emotions.

I have read through an entire 20-year-three-days-a-week webcomic, listened to four audiobooks of the same webcomic as novels, and am now in the third book on my second complete listen through. I have not often been so determined to go through media so many times in quick succession.
I realized that a big part of why I'm going through it now, is because I'm feeling intense emotions and feeling the dullness of everyday life. It's January. We survived the holidays. We finally had a severe winter storm, three months into winter. We're staying home today due to wind chill and icy roads. Work has started up again; co-op classes have commenced. There's lesson planning and homework and housework to do. I have two teens who both want to listen to different things, so we have to take turns, compromise, or go into separate rooms. I even completed the 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle I started a year ago at Christmas, the Sistine Chapel.
No matter how much media I listen to, how much I try to dissolve into a novel or movie or game or story, when I come out, the same house is there; the same people are there. I'm still there.
This is why we set new year's resolutions. Not because we're going to instantly become better people. Not because January is magic.
It's because of this nameless emotion. We are left to our own devices, limited by cold and commitments and loneliness and dim light and cloudy weather. At this time of year I am in my own thoughts. The holidays are past. The spring has not yet come. This is not depression, exactly; it is rest. It is low energy. It is a lack of excitement, intentional, a healthy contrast.
It is indeed, not exciting. Not thrilling, not even overtly fun. But there must be a reason.
There has to be a time to return and report. A time to evaluate and plan for the next year. A time to feel the feels, and let them go.