Should Do and Are Doing are Often Two Different Things

Octopi are the prudes of the ocean. Dolphins are all like “tits or GTFO.”

I find my amusement where I can.

I feel like I have been a whiny sack of whine on here lately. I would pretend I haven’t been, but I kinda have been.

Last week I was just not doing it. I don’t know what my issue is, but it just wasn’t happening. I would think about writing a blog and cringe. Sometimes, I just don’t feel interesting or funny or even mildly entertaining. I sure as shit haven’t felt poignant or inspirational. Mostly, I’ve felt hibernation-y. I normally get really bad depression this time of year, but it has been held off by a magical combination of medicine, birth control (I use it to regulate my hormones. Eat a dick, Rush Limbaugh.), and pure unadulterated happiness and swings of crazy caused by some sexy manbeast. I think the little rut I’ve been in with my writing is this years incarnation of my seasonal crazy crap.  I’ll put on my big girl panties and get back into it.  (Like the title says, should do and are doing do not always mean the same thing.) I have a book to write and a world to change.

I probably shouldn’t admit so readily that I believe I am going to change the world. I just happen to believe anyone can change the world. We might not make huge waves we can see in the news, but we have the ability to change the world in a billion small ways every day. These small things are just as important as the big things.

People matter. Happiness matters. Sometimes we look down on things which exist for no other reason to make people happy. We think making people happy is not enough. We feel like everything and everyone must do something, must be productive.  Making someone happy is doing something valuable. Doing small things to be happy is a productive pursuit.

Being happy is valuable. Making other people happy is a valuable pursuit. If you can make people around you smile and laugh, you’ve changed the world. It might only be a little bit, but that little bit does matter. If you can help people around you feel less alone, scared, or hurt, you’ve changed the world. Helping one person is changing the world. It isn’t grandiose or likely to get us remembered by history, but it is important.

I have to remember that myself sometimes.