David, you're forgetting that you do something every day by publishing ROME. If only ONE Person reads something that excites their otherwise inert brain, you've been successful.

My suggestion is that you go to the corner bar and have a chat and a drink ... maybe five... or ten.

You won't feel any better in the morning, but at the moment you will remind yourself that actually, it all does matter ... to someone, somewhere, somehow.

Keep doing what you're doing.

And, by the way, it matters to me.