Pssst…hey you? Yea, you…..shhh! Do NOT wake up Yikes! and Egads! Heck, I don’t want to be up, today. I ain’t for the ‘conquering the day mode’ and Yikes! and Egads! are running around, trying to find me.
So, I saw you, huddled in your own ‘I ain’t feeling this today but the world and this one and that one is expecting me to do better, be better, live harder, try harder mode and I ain’t feeling making coffee let alone doing any of THAT mode’ and figured I would hide out with you, for a spell.
These last two years have been hell, havent’ they? I have wanted to go to bed and wake up in 2026. I have wanted to eat much chocolate, do very little thinking. I have longed to be free of EVERYTHING, whilst not having to do NOTHING. I have wanted to find love, wanted to tell love to go kick some rocks, already(okay maybe not kick rocks but either come or leave me the hell alone, forever…*sigh*).
God and Life have been relentless, though. ALWAYS, always, always(!) encouraging me to keep going, to keep living, to keep on keeping on. To be honest, I have wanted to tell the BOTH to kick some rocks, already. Can’t very well tell GOD and LIFE to kick rocks, tho, right?…*sigh*….*Cassandra secretly wishes she could tell God and Life to kick rocks, today*.
It’s not so much that I am tired, you know? It’s just….it’s just….*sigh*. See what I mean!? Life at times just seems sooooo…..just…..unexplainable. And I am tired of trying to understand it already!!
GO KICK ROCKS TODAY, LIFE!….opppps….
We can’t, though, go on head and have Life kick rocks. What if, our dreams are answered, today? What if, love showed up for us, today? What if wishes, rainbows, unicorns, knights, queens, kings and all manner of royalty showed up to collect us, today?
Well crapola, with you making arguments like THAT, how the heck can we AFFORD to be up in our corner? I tell you what, I shall watch your back, and you watch mine, today, okay? That way, we can lean on one another. Let’s do this, you, yea YOU, let’s go find some others. They are out there. By, the many. Silently, in a corner, waiting to be:
Seen.
Heard.
Loved.
Cherished.
Respected.
Connected.
Ah, connnected. Folks are just needing to be CONNECTED, to something, to someone, some kind of way. Let’s go get some and let them know they already ARE connected, if they will only come from hiding.
The world waits for us, hiding folks wait for us. God and Life, wait for us. Yikes! and Egads! waits for us to scare the hell out of them while we are living loud, loving hard, laughing much, failing spectacularly, succeeding tinlily(is tinily even a word? Who cares. I am living so can make up any old word I feel like. Ha!).
Where was I? Oh, yea, living. Let’s get the coffee going, make the chili, do the thing, make the way, fight the fight, try the TRY, keep standing, and ALL the other uplifting, annoying, exhausting things I have the NERVE to foist upon you, upon me, on the daily. Don’t judge me, crapola rolls down hill and God and Life forever pestering me to do these things and I am simply passing on the savings…(insert shrug here as too blasted tired to shrug)…..*shrug*……
We got this. Okay, maybe not so much got this but we know who got us, right?
Stay, loud.
shouting with you,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
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