More often lately, I shut down and lie in bed for exasperated chapters of the day.
After time, it’s worthwhile to recover because otherwise things will only get worse. Depression, when left for too long, is lethal.
I’ve learned that lesson more than once in my life and I fight constantly to never hit that wall ever again.
I noticed this morning, feeling recovered from last night’s bout of woe, there are five things I rely on to re-motivate my will to exists.
- Hope
- Laughter
- Momentum
- Stillness
- Creativity
I know it sounds corny but, if you’re really down, read on:
1. Hope
Curled into a ball, watching a show about MTV about ghosting and people who date other people before they are ready to be loved
Order your favourite meal for less
Send your kids to school, it will only be for a week
Never regret listening
Suck on water when you’re hungry and oranges when you’re sad
Further notice is always a good idea
Notice of any kind is a always a good idea
Little thoughts of maybe appear
In the cracks between No and Whatever
- Change
- Peace
- Water
- Still rocks on the edge forever until they fall
2. Laughter
Scrabble is played by at least two people who speak the same language
Nothing is a word unless it is used to say things
Before speech, there is noise
Grip cheeks, turn head, breathe shallow chest mucus air
Forget your parents, forget your legs, forget you can or can’t
Nonsense is the uncreation of Worry
Funny is the end of speech
It’s the outbreak of surrender
GURL is a word
3. Momentum
Skip rope with me for a minute
Or until you fall
Click click hit the ground if you’re short enough to hear the ground
Go go go go go go go go go go g
You can’t hear what you don’t accept
Three minutes, five
Only dead sticks fall from the wind
4. Stillness
If you’re really dead, enjoy it
Lie sweat and hiccups
You’re being licked
5. Creativity
Brain reactivity
Electricity is happiness recruited
Slither through the walls of a different home
Give away a new design
Build to fix
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Rachel Ganz 