Category: Hot Trigger
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Perspective change
I have discovered in the last year that just about anything can look terrible to you when you are looking at the bad side of things. Or sometimes all it takes is a little reframing to realize that you are thinking too much about the negatives of a situation and not considering the positives at…
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Daily Prompt 8/7/23
WOKE. If I never hear that word again, it will be TOO SOON. Most people who run around complaining about WOKE IDEOLOGY don’t even know what they are talking about. Define woke. It’s ok, I’ll wait. Well, you can’t? How do you know you are against something you can’t even define. Oh sure, that crazy…
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Girl
Girl had a breakdown last night. We haven’t started school yet and are slowly working back to the normal timing for when school does start in two weeks. We are all staying up too late and it’s wearing us all down. I was running behind last night and taking out my contacts as the last…
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Daily Prompt 8/2/23
I want people to see me as a real person with a huge struggle to reconcile how I was born with who I really am on the inside. I have lived a very performative life as the person I was expected to me, while suppressing everything real about me. I appeared to have no personality,…
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The End
The squatter leaves this weekend. Finally. And all the squatter’s disgusting stuff will be gone too. I wish it had happened much sooner. I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve tried to ignore the numbness inside me that prevents me from feeling the pain of remembering what life used to be. I’ve tried to be understanding…
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Independence
Today is July 3rd, one day before Independence Day. I always kinda liked July 4th as a kid. It was the first big holiday after school was over and we always went to my aunt and uncle’s house and swam in their pool. It was always a good time with good food and average company.…
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Stop holding it all in
(Mental note to self-it does not help you to hold in your emotions. You know this. You have learned this lesson repeatedly over the last three or so years. Just stop already!) I woke up yesterday and right away I knew I wasn’t feeling like myself. Something was off. I was cranky but for no…
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Myers-Briggs, 16 personalities, whatever
So I’ve taken this test like 100 times and every single time I get a different personality type that doesn’t actually fit very well. A friend shared results on social media and I took the test a few days ago and got yet another unfitting result. Then my wife said she took it and so…