/fa/ - Fashion

Read short stories. Nothing to wake up the soul of wit like a nice clever short story. Saki and Wilde in English, Marcel Aymé in French, provide accessible and enjoyable stories with smart humor. They also manage to be wry without being exactly cynical.

Read Henry Miller. Might depress you a bit on surface because he likes to talk about women, but seriously Henry Miller rolling is like a cheerful trainwreck of healthy energy.

Classical tragedy could provide the much hyped catharsis, or at the very least switch your focus towards a purer, more alien suffering. Try Prometheus Unbound, Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, or even Persians by Eschyles. Try Racine's Britannicus.

You could try to cheer you up (while wisening) with a good comedy-if no Shakspeare or Molière, have a least some Marivaux. Boulgakov's Diaboliad is funny, in a crazier and more dizzying way.
Cervantes' s Exemplar are a particular kind of brilliant, light and entertaining and effortlessly getting points accross, you might dig it.

Finally, you might want a sobering take on your plight, or even face the hard test of introspection and assessig your own failure as well as complacency. That much is hard, but Stoic literature (Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius), as well as religious (Bhagavad Gita, book of Job, Eclesiastes, Song of Song for a love distant enough not to put salt on your wounds, Pascal's Thoughts and Kierkegaard's works), and non-religious philosopher inspired by religion or criticism of it (Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche), might help you.

Various of the authors I mentioned have relatively short works, so you could do almost one every day.

But most importantly: don't forget to go outside. Exercise you mental faculties. Go to the best looking place in town (alternatively the own with most trees) and walk around there for about an hour. Think, look, breath, and don't be afraid of treading unknown streets. Then go home and write a rendition of what you just saw (or play music, draw, product).