Happy place

by Jon Sullivan - 2022-03-17 - Jonism

<<<<< previous blog         next blog >>>>>

You need a happy place. Some well you can always draw from for a quick hit of joy. Even if only for a bit. Have some joy on standby.

And as a child of the 1900s I worry this generation just lacks the balls for what might be coming. Inflation spiral like the 70s. Nationalism overtaking democracy. A cold war, or worse, a world war. States carving out the legitimate science and healthcare they don't like and making them illegal. Back ally abortions. Looming civil war in the completely not united USA. So much hate from every direction. Let's not sugarcoat it. The world is in a bad place. And no one is fixing any of it. Not to mention all the regular day to day personal shite one must endure so they can grow old and die.

Everyone will deal with it how they can. The fear, the living under threat, the bottomless doubt and insecurity. The tears.

Find your happy place. You need to. Find that thing that you can count on. The thing that makes you smile and clap with glee no matter how bad life gets. Even if it's silly and no one else gets it. Even if the joy will be fleeting. Find your well of joy. A joy of last resort. Something you know is there when you need it. Don't let the fear and anger and sadness be without end.

I've mentioned many of my own here before, though I doubt they will help others. Because I'm a weirdo. But I'll share anyway. Jeannie singing Dig A Tunnel. Pretty much any Babymetal. The lazy narcotic of video games. The repetitive endorphin drip of photography. Some comfort food. These days it seems to be more of the odd music choices like Sierra Ferrell or Lake Street Dive. Or the one that is so weird I hesitate to mention it - FFXIV dance videos.

Find your happy place. It doesn't need to fix anything. It doesn't need to make sense. It just needs to be the thing that stops the bottomless falling. A brief moment of joy. Have some joy on standby.

<<<<< previous blog         next blog >>>>>
News
Eugene weather
41.02 degrees F, Clouds (overcast clouds)
Min: 37.87 ,Max: 43.83 ,Humidity: 93, Wind: 10.36
Eugene, OR - Best Restaurants
Eugene, OR - Things to do
Eugene, OR - Fish reports
Oregon road conditions
Recent Posts
- The happiness problem
    For a couple years being happy 24/7 was great. As 2025 unfolds, happiness seems misplaced.
- Virtue vs
    A good test of your faith is to see how it holds up to a world filled with suffering and evil and injustice.
- Eat the rich
    Elon Musk is accused of cheating on video games. Luckily I am an expert in these sorts of things. Here's my take.
- 2025 - The year of recipes
    Obviously I need to post more recipes. Let's make it count for something. Taking requests.
- 2024 best photos
    I didn't get as many photos this year. More inner journey than camera adventure. But it was a year.
- Grey
    I don't remember the last two winters being this grey and cloudy, rainy, wet. This winter has felt proverb level wet.
- Snowflake
    I am what the ruling class thinks I am - Woke, socialist, liberal, hippie snowflake. Always have been, always will be.
Food I Cooked
Old School Blogroll
kottke.org
Home of fine hypertext products.
MetaFilter
A community weblog.
A Chicken Is Not Pillage
You forgot his exclamation point! It defines him. He put it there for a reason, to show how in! your! face! he is.
jessamyn.com
abada abada - twenty years of jessamyn
Matt Haughey
A Whole Lotta Nothing
dooce
Heater, Mother Of Lance
Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Some Bits
Nelson's weblog
Everlasting Blort
proud member of the reality-based community
Whatever
This machine mocks fascists
Scripting News
It's even worse than it appears.
Flutterby
Short attention spans in a world full of flowers
mimi smartypants
Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
Montreal City Weblog
Stupid Evil Bastard
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Idle Words
brevity is for the weak
Making Light
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
wilwheaton.net
50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong
Justin Hall
Growing & breaking down since 1994
Mike the Mad Biologist
Helping idiots who desperately need my assistance by calling them fucking morons since 2004
jwz
MSSV
AKMA’s Random Thoughts
Ruminations about hermeneutics, theology, theory, politics, ecclesiastical life… and exercise.
things magazine
An occasional weblog about objects, collections and discoveries
Miscellaneous Heathen
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
kimberussell.com
where it's always Virgo Season
Cockeyed
Recent Trips
Getting it ready for you.