How Elections and Candy Crush Saga Ruined My Life

WELP. I know I'm supposed to be blogging daily if I want to be internet famous someday or a good writer or have an audience or just to stop the nagging voices in my head. But I don't even feel like reading blogs right now -- why in the world would I want to write one that even I would skim through?

 

Everything out there I would like to blog about might be alienating.  As a psych and social work major, I have learned so much in the last year about oppressed populations. 

 

Unfortunately my brain tells me this when I go to write about what I've learned, "Politics? I mean, the election is over and people expect all the political stuff to thankfully go away.  STAHPIT!" 

 

Preach, brain. People, and by people I include myself, DUH,  feel like they have been inundated by their friends and families on political posts and they have had their fill and should be allowed to escape.  And while that might not be politically correct to take that option, I don't think it makes you a bad person.

 

Just know that some people don't have the option to not focus on these things, because it is happening to them in their everyday life.

 

If that makes you feel guilty, don't feel guilty.  Guilty is a useless feeling.  Take action! Educate yourself, or take your education and find out how you can change things that upset you!

 

I don't want anyone out there eaten up with guilt and just sitting there. OWN YOUR FEELINGS. Want to make a difference!  You go, go make that difference!  You can do it!  You do you!

 

Or be grateful for your option to not have to worry.  Sure, it's kind of at the expense of others, but hey, you do you. Being stressed out is a real issue, stress kills, stress perpetuates disease.  How are you supposed to change social diseases when you have physical or even mental diseases?  Well, you can, of course you can. Yes, please change the world. But don't be burned out. Remember who you are! Take time out each day to be who you are and carve out time to be someone other than Peter Politics or Sally Social Justice.

 

And if you're me and that means playing Candy Crush Saga for hours on end, well, that's up to you.