Soccer reveals character

Joe Flood
3 min readMar 4, 2019
Clear the field so we can play

“I think I have Seasonal Affective Disorder,” I told Dmitre, as we stood in the snow.

“No, no,” he replied. “As an ex-psychiatrist, let me tell you: disorder is not a word you want to use.”

I got his point. We’re humans with human conditions, not disorders. It’s natural to be depressed during the winter. Some have it worse than others.

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Joe Flood

Writer, photographer and web persofrom Washington, DC. Author of The Swamp, a funny new satire of our crazy times.