The worst possible thing you can do when you’re down in the dumps, tweaking, vaporous with victimized self-righteousness, or bored, is to take a walk with dying friends. They will ruin everything for you.
First of all, friends like this may not even think of themselves as dying, although they clearly are, according to recent scans and gentle doctors’ reports. But no, they see themselves as fully alive. They are living and doing as much as they can, as well as they can, for as long as they can.
—Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
In fact, of course, we’re all dying. Some more slowly than others. So doing as much as we can, as well as we can, for as long as we can strikes me as a great strategy. What do you think? What do you do when you’re down in the dumps or feeling victimized?
Carpe diem! A good reminder would be this T-shirt:
December 2, 2014
Take a nap and/or keep busy.
I’m seldom “down in the dumps” and never feel victimized.
Yay, Mike! I’m not surprised.
LOLOL. sometimes i seize the day and sometimes it seizes me.
either way… they all have a way of marching on! much too fast now.
i like the t shirt. 😀
😀 That reminds me of Ashleigh Brilliant’s, “I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
That T-shirt is brilliant.
Usually I do something nice for myself.
Yay, Evan!
I wonder if it will be politically correct to say I have “carped” on the diem.
PC or not, I’m using that phrase. 🙂