It’s a wildly sunny day, no clouds, really, to speak of, and it’s difficult to believe we’re right back at the tail end of a year that seems like it started a week or so ago. And hasn’t really gone the way we hoped.
Which happens.
But before we get into all that, a big, big thank you to ModernMulan for the coffee. I too wish you the most wonderful Thanksgiving, my friend. I am thankful for you, and so grateful that you are one of the people who make Spoutible home.
And on to Tuesday.
I nearly wrote Thursday, but I think we’ll know when that one arrives. Probably.
Given the holiday.
It seems like we’re all bubbling with irritation lately, maybe because that’s the stage we’ve hit, maybe because things are absolutely extra annoying. They really are extra annoying.
Everyone handles that differently, and for some people, I think their natural instinct is to make trouble. Not the good kind of trouble, mind you, but the annoying kind of trouble which doesn’t cancel out the annoying but multiplies it.
Though maybe it helps for them, like they can hot potato it to some extent.
Sadly being annoyed is nontransferable. It can spread, though.
It’s not the way I choose to deal with things. In my head, the nicest thing we can do right now is try to de-annoy as much as possible.
What does that mean?
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure. Maybe giving people you’ve interacted with before a little room because you know they’re also irritable. Maybe not giving people who somehow relieve the pressure by popping other people’s balloons the chance to do so to you, whether by not engaging or using the tools to make them vanish into the internet ether, if such tools are possible.
Because I am certainly not telling you to make people vanish in the real world. That is a whole other genre.
We can only control ourselves. I think that our biggest weapon of self care in the time to come will prove the shrug.
The simple shrug.
We will not have the energy, really, to have ours siphoned for things that don’t even really matter to us. And if there’s anything that fits that bill, it’s annoyances.
So feel annoyed if you’re annoyed. I certainly am steeped in it this moment, over things that have happened and things that haven’t.
Aren’t we all.
And I guess that’s my point. We can grumble at one another or we can grumble together.
And grumbling together is just more fun.
Have a great Tuesday.
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