You will be missed (exponentially!)

Take risks.

Cheer up.

Q:What do you do when you are having an awful day?

John Mayer Answer:First of all, sorry you’re having an awful day. (People don’t ask these kinds of questions when they’re sipping drinks by a pool.)

What do I do when I’m having an awful day? I time travel. Well, sort of. Here’s how I cheat the math:

Question: Is this problem going to change your life forever or will there come a day this problem will no longer exist?

If you decide the problem won’t exist after a certain period of time, then you can file it under “temporary.” Which brings me to step number two: if the problem is temporary, then you can sort of detach from the “now-ness” of the discomfort. I’m not saying ignore the lessons in the problem. Definitely learn from the problem, work to solve it, but spare yourself the existential grief, because it will get you nowhere. (This coming from an existential grief-master.)

Okay, better way to explain it: you wake up to find you have a giant zit on your nose. Everyone can see it. But within a week that zit will be gone and nobody will remember you had a zit. Maybe they’ll have one instead. So if the zit will be gone next week and people will forget, is the zit REALLY there now? I say you can answer “no” if you bend your brain around it the right way.

You can’t travel through time, but you can send your thoughts and hopes into the future to camp out and wait for you to arrive there, where you’ll meet up and hug and decide that everything is alright again.

love.
live.
life.
proceed.
progress.
Krista Tracy

Your life is changing, what's wrong with that.

Mapnote for Maptote.

Jungle City.

Today was a hot mess.
It's a jungle out there.
Thank God I don't live in the big apple just yet.
My one day off and I tried my best to keep it low key.
As life goes... nothing went my way.

To take the edge off, as I was already up on Newbury,
I made my way to Anthropologie.
That store has a hold on me.
It relaxed me and put my mind at ease.
Found this great belt, BUT gladly walked away.

Now I'm happy at home relaxing,
drinking a Redbridge, watching WImbledon,
and looking forward to taking the afternoon to myself.
Enjoy the day, :)