Maybe This Explains Your Mood
If you are feeling a little bit down today but are unsure as to why, let me offer you a few possibilities.
• That TV show you like might not be coming back.
• We are less than ten days away from Thanksgiving.
• The whole "dying alone" thing is getting harder to ignore.
• Problems pile up and solutions seem ever farther from our grasp. Even the will to contend with the crises of our era appears sapped, buried beneath bad faith and small-mindedness. The spirit of optimism, and the generosity such hope inspired, has long curdled into a bitter, selfish defeatism. It is difficult to be positive about the future, while the present remains some kind of empty promise. Life, always a bastion of suffering and regret, seems ever more difficult to take. The simple task of getting out of bed in the morning becomes a titanic struggle against mounting indifference which gives way to dread and then a sense of pure emptiness.
• The weather is gonna suck until at least Friday. If I had to characterize the current conditions in one word I would choose "dingy."
Anyway, I hope that helped. I mean, you may not feel better, but hopefully at least now you know why you feel bad. You're welcome.
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* (You Can't) Occupy Wall Street.
* Your kitten came to visit you in prison and you can't even pet him because of the glass partition.
@major disaster
* we both know you've reversed the characters' placement in that story, and that kitten deserved the sentence he was given.
*You're out of Corn Pops, and you, y'know, gotta have your pops.
These brighten my day.
@Hamilton I agree. The whole "'dying alone' thing getting harder to ignore" thing becomes a little easier to bear with every reminder that everybody's got to do it. If we're all going to die alone, at least in that sense, we all die alone together. So, Yay!
@Dave Bry "We all die alone together" is going to get me through this day/month/year, Dave Bry.
@Dave Bry What @sox said. That was perfect, Dave.
@Dave Bry I am a new commenter and though there are apparently many versions of the ditty, Judy's is the one that came to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSIhGiPRGlY Yes, BTW, I'm gay.
@Dave Bry "Dying alone" has always sounded great to me. It's basically the way I spend my weekends and as long it doesn't preclude an internet hookup and 600 channels it's exactly what I want.
@Dave Bry Does this also apply to "sex alone?"
@Hamilton seconded
On the plus side: brown liquor and pecan pie season!
@BadUncle well, at least brown liquor contributes to the plus side.
@SeanP: Excellent, more pecan pie for me and BadUncle.
@Bittersweet I'm glad because not everyone is worthy of the King of Pies.
Hold me, Donald Glover.
Balk needs a cat or a dog. Those assholes will never let you stay in bed very long. Also, labs and tabbies seem to have radar for the crotch, a good knock there every day or so will help you remember you're still alive…Also, make you want to die.
Still, these talks help me realize that while I'm piss poor at my job, it doesn't really matter in the larger equation of life.
@theheckle *You may have just put down your tabby because $10000 is a lot of money to spend on a cat that may not get better.
Getting a pet is signing up to watch something you love unconditionally die. So.
On the other hand, Skyrim.
* You may be a Vikings fan.
*there are still people out there on the internet who read Thought Catalog unironically.
Happiness is a warm gun
Fuck Christmas
You've got to stop listening to that Adele song, man.
BREAKING: Everything is terrible.
* Your body feels betrayed by the pizza/beer combo that felt so right last night.
This weather doesn't explain my mood so much as agree with it.
I can personally Wm. Burroughs' "Thanksgiving Prayer" to lift and/or corroborate these seasonal feelings all sentient beings share.http://youtu.be/s4nSxArk9g8
* something something moon something.
THAT THING IN PENNSYLVANIA SURE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IN MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW.