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Worse off

by Kelley

in a mind is a terrible thing to waste, tiny pieces of my mind, whiney mcwhinerson

Some days are hard.

For no reason, just they are and it is what it is and can we move on already?

I don’t need reminding of the people in the Sudan and the fact that I threw out food that expired in my fridge and I have nice warm clothes {even if they don’t fit} and I have scissors to cut my own hair {for the record, BAD IDEA} and there are people in the world with no food or warm clothes or sharp scissors.

There are people in the world with BLUNT MOTHERFUCKING SCISSORS PEOPLE?!?! ย How do we even let this happen?

I am well aware that someone elses child has a worse disability or mental illness or is in need of a major organ replacement.

I have the guilt of the world on my shoulders here in my nice First World watching my son make a bed out of the cardboard box that my treadmill came in so I don’t have to go outside to exercise, in our second living area wearing nothing but a too small shirt and underwear on this bisteringly cold day with our central heating cranked up.

I have cupboards overflowing with food and things and I have any number of options for dinner or I can just go fuck it all and bake a brownie or order pizza ONLINE and someone will bring it to my door in exchange for some paper.

I can go and have a shower to wash off this self loathing for feeling sad for what I don’t have when there are so many who have nothing. ย I can even have a bath, complete with exotic bath fizzies in the shape of macarons.

Or, I can stop beating myself up for feeling life is unfair cause I have lost so much and have too much to deal with and just wallow for a while.

Because it is OK to be selfish.

It is OK to think the world sucks.

Cause that poor T-Rex can eat what the fuck ever he wants and he was king of the world but he still can’t put on a hat.

Or outrun that meteor.

There is always going to be someone – or some dinosaur – worse off than you.

That doesn’t make today any less sucky.

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1 reality Raver June 8, 2012 at 1:25 pm

You can get bath thingies in the shape of macaroons – well I found this post very educational indeed. Take care and big hugs. You can’t make life better for everyone just try and make it better for yourself.

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2 Kelley June 8, 2012 at 4:38 pm

Moo and Ring in Ranga bought me one for my birthday from Lush.

It feels too special to use!

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3 Mrs Woog June 8, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Give yourself a set time to wallow. I do it all the time x

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4 The Accidental Housewife June 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm

Yeah, look, I’m sure their are many legless, armless, headless kids with cancer, herpes and leprosy living in third world dumps off three grains of rice a day. But unless they actualy receives something positive by me feeling guilty about being better off, then there’s kind of no point. I might as well stow my guilt and just be happy wallowing. I’m still allowed to have a sucky day, even if it sucks less than theirs. I’m just joining team suck. I’M ON THEIR SIDE! That’s the way I see it, anyway.

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5 katesaysstuff June 8, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Yep. Bad days are bad. We are allowed to have them. Love you though you first world biatch.

Also, I cut my own hair a couple of days ago. Why didn’t you post this then?! It was a mistake :s

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6 Kelley June 8, 2012 at 4:40 pm

MPS caught me in the bathroom and practically screamed NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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7 ms optimism June 8, 2012 at 3:37 pm

Amen sister. Sometimes having a bad day isn’t a choice, it’s a situation foisted upon you by a brain that is so chemically unbalanced that I can’t even think of a good metaphor.

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8 kim(frogpondsrock) June 8, 2012 at 4:15 pm

Onamattathingy

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9 Amanda June 8, 2012 at 4:21 pm

Yes. Exactly. All of it.

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10 josefa pete June 8, 2012 at 4:29 pm

i have days like this all the time….but never once did i think of the dinosaur – i will from now on ๐Ÿ™‚

xx

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11 Michaela C (@FiveFrogsBlog) June 8, 2012 at 4:32 pm

Chick, there’s a lot of this going around.

Wallow away, the world will still be here and still loving you to bits when you step out of the mud pit xxxx

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12 Kelley June 8, 2012 at 4:41 pm

I probably came back a little soon…

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13 river June 8, 2012 at 5:21 pm

My daughter K has a t-shirt with two dinosaurs high-fiving each other and a T-rex looking on being sad because he can’t high five.
Where is the photo of the haircut????
Bad/sucky days are allowed, I had one last Monday.

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14 Robin from Israel June 8, 2012 at 5:27 pm

It’s not a zero sum game. Your suckage is yours, what other people do or don’t have is irrelevant.

I hope tomorrow is a significantly less sucky day.

xox

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15 Jayne June 8, 2012 at 5:32 pm

Bad, sucky days grow in winter, the bastards are like the mould in the bathroom cabinet that suddenly leaps up and smothers the mirror when you’re not looking.
xxxx

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16 Annie June 8, 2012 at 5:46 pm

The dinosaur cartoon is a perfect antidote for grumpiness. If it makes your day any better, I read your blog for the first time today and am already a big fan. Look forward to more, and I hope sunnier days are ahead for you.

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17 Maid In Australia June 8, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Bad days suck arse. It is okay to feel pissed off when they do.

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18 Fiona June 8, 2012 at 7:16 pm

Exactly.

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19 Glowless June 8, 2012 at 8:10 pm

I’d say take it out on Newman, but that would make me both highly unhelpful and a hypocrite.
Do the people with blunt scissors have blogs? I’d totally read that shit.

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20 Ness [Six One and Then Some] June 8, 2012 at 9:30 pm

I like dinosaurs. That is all.

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21 spotrick June 8, 2012 at 10:51 pm

“wearing nothing but a too small shirt and underwear”
So … Was that you or Boo? My mind is racing.

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22 Denyse Whelan Education Specialist June 8, 2012 at 11:26 pm

I love your brain. It throws up the best ideas. I laughed at the TRex & the hat. You rock.

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23 meleah rebeccah June 9, 2012 at 2:29 am

“There is always going to be someone โ€“ or some dinosaur โ€“ worse off than you. That doesnโ€™t make today any less sucky.”

Yep. And you’re allowed to have a bad day – and you’re allowed to express your feelings because sometimes things just suck!

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24 Stimey June 9, 2012 at 6:40 am

You are exactly right. I hope tomorrow is better, love.

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25 tattoomummy June 9, 2012 at 10:05 am

I hope you find a way to get your hat on your head soon.
x

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26 Marita June 9, 2012 at 10:39 am

I laugh at the t-rex hat pain.

But I don’t laugh at yours. Life sucks and it is okay to acknowledge that it does and wallow.

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27 Francine June 9, 2012 at 1:01 pm

I hear you. I have a lot of friends far worse off than I am, they still allow me to wallow in a shitty day once in a while.

We all need it.

Mind you, the T-Rex with the hat is awesome, and I am totally going to think of that next time ๐Ÿ˜€

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28 Belinda June 9, 2012 at 2:34 pm

OMG people have blunt scissors?!… this must be fixed, I say we ship loads of pocket stones for sharpening scissors all around the world

on a serious note, yes we all have bad days even though we know there are people who are worse off somewhere in the world, we still need to deal with our bad days in our own way… and it doesn’t make it less sucky

take care pretty lady

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29 carmen June 9, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Well I’m sending hugs… I’ve been a big pile of selfish last night and today… and I don’t even regret it. Tomorrow is going to be another story but hey… we’ll get there! Coz we is the AWESOME. ๐Ÿ˜‰
xxx

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30 Parental Parody June 10, 2012 at 5:53 pm

Word.
xxx

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31 Madmother June 11, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Exactly.

Your life, your issues, your pain. Fuck the rest of it.

xx

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32 Lisa June 13, 2012 at 2:27 am

Exactly this. My husband gets caught in the trap of never asking for help because there is always someone who needs it more and he should just be grateful that he’s not _____ (fill in the blank). Then I have to punch him in the face (ok not literally)(much) and make him go to the doctor because I can’t stand the talking about the problem without doing anything to fix the problem for one more second. Next time I’m just going to tell him to be thankful he can put on a hat.

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33 Monnie June 20, 2012 at 11:57 pm

I know this is a late comment but you’re right!
“there’s someone worse than you” nah no way do I subscribe to that bullshit line of thinking, because how does that fix my problems? My problems…. if they are problems in the scale of my life, then they must be pretty crappy! I would like a macaron bath thingy to admire and never use too. ๐Ÿ˜€

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