I needed a break. I had no plan for how I would waste this break; no rhyme or reason other than the obvious one that Life sucks for more folks than seems reasonable or called for.
It is as if the various tribes and groups that comprise the planet's population feel the need to make others unlike themselves more miserable than themselves in order to find their warm and fuzzy happy place.
In the scheme of the worldwide distribution of hate, discontent, and misery, my recent self indulgent dose of it is but a miniscule drop in a vast ocean of misery borne by the un-famous, the not so rich, the lesser lowly folks who make up 90 percent of the world's population. I am indeed much more blessed than most, yet I often don't feel that way.
I have come to the conclusion that the only people who are happy are the assholes who are jumping for joy as they liberally spread their hateful ugliness like it was a blessing on the rest of us.
But today I decided to to take a break from the simmering pot of miserable I seemed to enjoy wallowing in. A reasonable man might conclude I was loving Life in the doldrums, sitting on the couch, eating popcorn and cheering on the misery and discontent being shoved down all our throats by morally bereft, vindictive psychopaths full of imaginary righteous indignation, like we are the problem, not them.
I did not mean to share my dip into the pit where Depression resides. No, I was just going to write a let's get acquainted again post about my dog, Maggie. It would have been just another I love my dog post I am sure; safely non confrontational without any self pity.
Seems I blew it.
So let me quietly go away until such time I can return with either joy or fierce criticisms, whichever one blows my dress up at the time.
Keep it 'tween the ditches ...........................................
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My post may have lost track of its point before it began, but at least the musical part of the post can stay on topic. Here is a great song by Charlie Parr. It is called "Dog".
"My old man's soul in this old dog's coat"
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