I drinkey drank drunk the wine again! Woooooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the world is amaaazing again! Because walking is hard, but it shouldn’t be, which is HILARIOUS!!!
The world is also a bit shit. Not for me, really, as I’m enjoying a staycation and having a super lovely time chilling out with the most delightful gf on the planet, and having walks in the sunshine and crossing movies off the list and reading old Russian books about aristocratic cocktail parties. As you flippin’ do.
So yeah life is pretty grand for me, or at least it would be, except a lot of people are struggling and that hurts because I’m a Sensitive Soul. Which sounds like boot polish for people prone to iritated skin. Get your Sensitive Soul at leading pharmacies and footwear stores. Anyway, lot of my friends are struggling. For a whole host of reasons. Covid certainly doesn’t help, but also general life shittyness seems to have happened quite a lot lately. And then there’s the numbers, and the doomscrolling…
So let me tell it to ya straight. Or as straight as I can manage right now because the room’s spinning a bit and I’m notexactly sure what straight is anymore. Point is: life does that. Throws you curve balls. Takes a dump right on your head from a really big height. Life can be a real stinker at times. And sometimes it just keeps being a stinker for years and years and years.
That wasn’t the point, I just felt like a new paragraph was needed. Break up the wall of text and stuff.
So life sucks sometimes. And it’s ok to be sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated and lonely. Feel your feelings. They’re what make us human. Or in the TNG episodes where Data’s gets the emotion chip, feelings make us aresholes. But Star Trek isn’t always real, so let’s move on from this slightly unhelpful tangent. Feel your feelings. Often I think we’re told by ‘society’ that we have to be ‘tough’ and never show the world when we’re hurting. That it’s weak to have a cry, or to ask for help. Obviously, that’s not the case. Being vulnerable is the foundation for good human relations – your friends need to know when you need help, when you’re struggling, when you feeling down.
So don’t be afraid to reach out. Don’t be weary of having a little sook or a whinge. Anybody who tells you they’ve got everything under control is lying. Because we could all do better. And absolutely none of us have all the answers.
So don’t be afriad to wallow. But also don’t succumb to the misery or the despair. Pick yourself up and make an effort – no matter how small – to claw your way back up the mountain. Because even the miniscule efforts all eventually add up and make a difference – but only if you keep going. ‘Succumb’ is a great word.
I say it all the time but only because I genuinely mean it: Hang in there, dear friends. Things WILL get better. You ARE strong enough, capable enough, and worthy enough. But none of you are alone. You can all reach out, ask for help, have a sook and a whinge and a rant. You can all find what it is that you need to inch your life back on track. Especially if we all help each other out.
Call a friend.
Eat the comfort food, drink the wine.
Do the exercise, watch the favourite movie, play the video game.
Masturbate.
Hug someone you love. Ask their consent first.
Write an angry letter to Clive Palmer telling him he’s a ugly goat’s scrotum.
Start inching towards the world you want.