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What it comes down to is this. I am simply a person of comfort and excess. As my dear friend Kulap says, “You refuse to apologize for living a celebratory life.”
“You come to something when you come to something.”
I’m furious. In today’s climate we all should be. Have to be.
It gets harder and harder to pick yourself up after pouring your entire heart and soul into change and not seeing it come to fruition.
Don’t hope for a miracle—EXPECT one.
Not everyone or everything has to be a yes.
The next general “not okay” is when people decide they don’t need to play by the rules of society that the rest of us have subscribed to.
If you as an adult person engage in couples or family Halloween costumes (which I DO!), please just don’t be SO excited by them. Temper yourself.
Don’t write gushy open letters to your partner/spouse/girlfriend or boyfriend on social media extolling their virtues. It’s embarrassing.
Don’t be cheap. I often find people with the least are the most generous. Give it away. It will come back.
By the same token, don’t make others feel as though their problems (however “small” you deem them) aren’t as big as yours.
one has a patent on suffering. Assume everyone’s pain is deeply real to them.
You want me to be present for this?? No thanks! I will be practicing mindlessness, please and thank you. Let’s all make a pact to live our worst lives.
whistling is basically saying, I am so incredibly at ease in this world I feel fine filling the few sacred silences we have left with the sound of my dippity-doo-dah dipshit whistle.
There is peace in knowing you can’t do anything. For an ambitious perfectionist, this is both revolutionary and excruciating. But what a goddamn relief.
