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My barrel is full, will overflow soon, I don’t know what to do.
It’s a daily insult to my intelligence, a daily kick to my humanity.
A daily trampling of my emotions.
My empathy, my compassion, my hopes and dreams are being laughed at.
The loud statement, “This is not who we are,” is now a whisper, “This is exactly who we are.”
I am frightened. I feel tortured and wounded.
I am lying on the ground. I have to get up.
Tomorrow, another stampede with bad news will come running toward me.
I have left the place of ‘wits end’ behind a while ago.
I am floating somewhere.
Sometimes I meet others like me, and we hold hands for a while.
Not physically, but in our minds, we smile and we pretend.
Then we continue floating.
“The Happy Quitter” August 2025
It was just a comment
Bob in the rushing waters with me for awhile. You are most definitely not alone in this! Maybe we can have a splash fight to escape a moment or two and feel normal again, if only briefly.
I don’t want to believe so many people are so intent on the destruction of our country. But it seems I didn’t know my friends and family at all. And sometimes (often) I now feel hopeless and forctge first time I’m glad I’m almost 70 because im almost finished with my time here.
The destruction happens because of misinformation and the lack of interest to do research. It’s a party loyalty that will cost us dearly, a party loyalty I cannot and will not understand. A nun ones said, “There is a lot of evil hiding behind the cross,” and she was right. Like you, I am glad to be older. I don’t envy the youth. My grandma said the same, but her concern were the music, our clothes, the short skirts. What she feared and what I fear is not the same…not by a mile. I am not fearful because I don’t understand the young generation, I am fearful because I don’t understand the older generations who will make their lives so miserable.
Much of the world is with you
That’s sad but true.
Once again you summed up how so many of us feel & it probably was meant to have been said out loud so we can come face–to-face with it. Now we face it together & feel gratitude that we aren’t alone. As a group we can move this mountain … eventually. It won’t be easy but nothing that is worth the struggle ever is. We’re tougher than we think
We have to be tough as nails. It helps to know that others think the same. Let’s move moutains. Thank you so much for reading and commenting.
It is so comforting to remember we are not alone
Yes, it is comforting. It makes me feel ‘normal’ again.
Jane was totally right . . . and you have walked alongside others who feel the same and perchance just haven’t known to put into words . . . so, thank you . . . because I certainly am walking on the same path . . .
It all happened so fast, I have never felt this way before. I assume the comment really opened my floodgate and I am glad I followed Jane’s advice.
Methinks so are many of us as you seem to have led the way . .
You are in my thoughts Bridget. Hugs 🤗
Thank you so much, Rupali.
Sending hope and hugs, Bridget.
I appreciate the virtual hug. Boy, I needed that.
My output on WordPress consists mostly of comments now, and I’ve always thought that so many of my remarks may deserve to be shared more widely. Consequently, some time ago, I started a file of copies of comments that I add to as and when the fancy takes me. I may, or I may not, at some time in the future, publish some of these pearls of wisdom! Of course, many of those comments will have no context without the original post, but so what? I shall now add this to the file!
I haven’t done it lately, but over the years, I have written comments, answers to other people’s posts that then became blog posts because, as so often, my mind wandered off.
Get it out, Peter. We can’t take it with us. You are an excellent writer and thinker, don’t be quiet. Let us all enjoy it, you are in a country where it’s not dangerous.
Thank you for these kind words, Bridget. You do me a great honour. However, I’m not sure that I am in a country where it’s not dangerous. It seems as if the whole world is allowing bullies, dictators, and obscenely rich people to do as they wish, enriching themselves with no thought or care for what it is doing to the people or the world!
This frightens me so much. The bullies are suppose to sit In North Korea, Burma, Russia, Turkey, Belarus…not here in our civilized countries. Yet, here we are. perhaps we, the people are not civilized enough?
I think civilisation has always been a fragile veneer, and it is slowly breaking up. We are at the stage where thousands of people will react to misinformation they read on social media, and many are then willing to join an unruly mob, sometimes violently, demanding that “they” must do something about it! I’m sorry to be so negative!
You are not negative, it’s reality. I just read on a neighborhood board where people said Ozzy Osbourne’s death is the most tragic event of the year and many agreed. Gaza? Ukraine? Pope? Trump? Inflation? Floods and wildfires? Nope it’s Ozzy. Stuff like this makes leaves me hopeless. If you are negative then I am the new crowned Mrs. Daisy Downer. “_
Thanks for the little smile at the end. We need to keep them going. 😊🤗
Holding out a hand and maybe we can float together for a short time.
I appreciate it. I feel lonely at times, so it’s good to feel that I am not alone.
A big smile for you as I float by. Have a great day Bridget.
Such a nice gesture. Thank you, Ernie.