weltschmerz \VELT-shmairts\ noun, often capitalized
1 : a mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state

I get the dictionary.com word of the day in my email (no need to tell me I'm a geek, I'm fully aware) and this is today's word. So this one hard-to-pronounce, probably German word pretty much describes my entire state of mind, and I even never knew it existed!

I feel complete. Completely weltschmerz, that is.

Take, for example, cupcakes. Cupcakes always look so delicious, with the frosting and the little candies on top and the colourful paper, and I always get so excited about eating one. And then I bite into it, and it tastes like cake. I hate cake. It's always such a disappointment because it looks like it should be so good and not cake-y at all. In order to meet my perceived flavour ideal, a cupcake should taste like a big fresh strawberry or maybe a piece of the Black Dragon roll from Sumo Lounge. Not at all related, but two of my favourite things to eat. Anyway, and I think you can see why, cupcakes, like so many other things, give me a big screaming case of weltschmerz.

God, that's a hard word to type.