Manic Monday – Volume IV

CRIPPITY CRAP, IT’S MANIC MONDAY!! That’s right, it’s the worst day of the week for most people so I enlighten the mood by telling you some of the crazy shit that went on in my head this week and actually remembered to write it down for your enjoyment! Buckle up you literate reader because chances are, even I have no idea what’s about to be published!!

First of all, the question was brought up to me this week, “What would you do with your life IF money were no object?” Now that’s a damn good question because there are so many possibilities and no wrong answers. MY answer was I would like to travel the world, writing and performing (acting, filming, stand-up, etc.) because I’m an entertainer at heart and also because I want to see the world. Not only do I want to see the world, but I want to find the little things. Not just go to the Eiffel Tower in France, but go around the corner to a little coffee shop not many people know about and enjoy a nice coffee then step outside and mime with the street mimes. THAT sounds like life to me. Do that while writing and performing, life couldn’t get any better. So my question to ask yourself: what would you do if money were no object? How do you start doing that now to make your life worth living?

Then again, would you take the chance to leave everything and start fresh? Even if it was crazy, like, I don’t know, live in a car bouncing around doing odd jobs for food and simple cash but you get to see it all for a while. Then you pick a place to settle down and start building up there. Would you do it? Now you’re thinking like a crazy person, good for you. It’s not a bad thing, don’t get me wrong, maybe it’s the right thing for you. You’ll never know until either A.) You do it, or B.) You die, or maybe even C.) You finally find true happiness doing something else. It’s your life, don’t let others tell you how to live it.

Moving right along, living in Colorado, anyone with a TV or radio or any sense of knowledge that knows what’s going on right now, the state of Colorado is basically underwater right now due to flooding. So I’m going to take a moment to ask you simply, when was the last time you went for a walk in the rain? Didn’t care about getting your phone wet (leave it home if you care that much!) or care about you getting wet or maybe even sick, just put on a hoody and left your house. Enjoyed the rain like you were a little kid again, instead of a grown ass adult thinking “Well we need the moisture”. It adds a sense of not only being young and free again, but just the fact that it brings happiness, PURE joy to your face and your heart. I don’t mean you have to go out in the downpour rain, just when the sky is spitting a little, just the rain that makes teenage girls want to get kissed in because they think it’s the cutest shit ever. Don’t go find someone to kiss, go for a walk: DITCH THEM AND BE A FREE AND HAPPY CHILD AGAIN!! Hell, skip down the road, who cares!! Muck some worms like Calvin and Hobbes!! You’re going to live longer and happier if you let your child out to play every now and then, so why not? What do you have to lose?

If you are obsessed with pleasing others though, is that a good thing or bad? I mean, to a degree of course. It’s obviously a good thing to do nice things, but if you are constantly going out of your way to PLEASE others (not just do nice things, but PLEASE them), when are you making time for yourself? I’m not talking about your job either, because maybe it’s your job to please others (especially if you work in customer service or hospitality or for someone as a secretary or something). In your personal life though, is it good to always try to please everyone else? When are you supposed to appease your needs/wants if you are always working for someone else? I agree that karma will bite you in the ass if you are always selfish, but sometimes you need to be selfish. Sometimes you need to worry about numero uno. I believe that most of the time you need to be the main focus because you are the one person you are stuck with for the rest of your life and if you don’t worry about getting your shit together, no one else is going to either.

Being selfish can go either way though. If you are too selfish, it comes across as a bad thing, but not being selfish enough always comes across as good to other people. But at the end of the day, you are going to be miserable because you didn’t focus on getting you done enough. Like I said, you are the one person you are stuck with from the day you are born until the day you die, everyone else comes and goes either as they please or as you want them to. You always need to make sure that you are happy with how your life is turning out, or all the help that did for others is going to be meaningless anyway. Yes, they will be appreciative of the assistance that they received, but at the same time, you are going to be miserable. The karma that you built up for the help you did, is nothing. So is being selfish a good thing? Have we been taught falsely our entire lives that we always need to worry about helping people, maybe we need to worry about us. Like the old saying goes “If I ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”