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\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
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I don’t get what I’m supposed to do anymore.\u00a0 Are we all supposed to plod along- work, eat, get drunk, sleep, work, eat, get drunk, sleep until we retire?\u00a0 Is retirement the goal or am I missing something?<\/p>\n
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I guess I feel like I’m seriously not getting the point of having an average life.\u00a0 I don’t mean average in a bad way, just you know- normal.<\/p>\n
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Signed,
\nMaybe I’m Just Depressed<\/p>\n
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Dear Maybe,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> The problem is that most people think they are supposed to be insanely happy all the time.\u00a0 They look at their friends and co-workers and think that they are gloriously happy, they read about celebrities and heiresses and think that they are mad with joy.\u00a0 But that’s just not the case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m pretty sure that a general feeling of dissatisfaction or angst is part of our evolutionary advantage.\u00a0 My dog seems ridiculously happy all the time, but when was the last time you heard about a dog exploring space or toying with the theory of relativity?\u00a0 I can’t even get my dog to follow a recipe and cook me dinner for god’s sake.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Without the very normal human feeling that you are missing out on something, you wouldn’t be driven to try new things.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> Sometimes I feel like there is hole in me.\u00a0 I think it’s in my stomach, behind my gut.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels so big I think I can hear a breeze blowing through it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I used to try and fill it up with cigarettes and booze and tacos and Red Bull.\u00a0 Then later I tried exercise, reading, writing, more tacos, soy milk, and Butterfingers.\u00a0 Nothing worked.\u00a0 I ended up fat and sleepless but with a lot of muscles from working out.\u00a0 Then yesterday I decided to think of the hole like an engine.\u00a0 Right now it’s like the engine in a hand held fan.\u00a0 It’s going to push me off the couch and around my apartment until I am inspired to start something.\u00a0 Maybe eventually the motor will get bigger and it will propel me to finish things.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> In the meantime, I’m just going to be grateful for the small happinesses in my life.\u00a0 And try to teach my dog to at least use the remote control so she can watch what she wants on TV without bothering me every two minutes to change the channel.\u00a0 She has no attention span.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> Sincerely,<\/strong> Dear Poor Lucky Me, I don’t get what I’m supposed to do anymore.\u00a0 Are we all supposed to plod along- work, eat, get drunk, sleep, work, eat, get drunk, sleep until we retire?\u00a0 Is retirement the goal or am I missing something? I guess I feel like I’m seriously not getting the point … Continue reading “What’s Next – Tuesday July 28”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"