yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes
“there’s that penny again, pa!”
this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes
dems were like “$2000 checks, immediately” then they were like “okay so not IMMEDIATELY immediately. first we’re gonna put on a big show to impeach trump even though he’s not even in office any more. also those checks are gonna be $1400 now. also we failed to convict trump. also we forgot about the checks. you good though, right? anyway we’re going on vacation now. please keep voting for us :)”
also remember when we said we were gonna help you out with your student loans? yeah we’re not doing that either
hey i know we said we were gonna fight for a $15 minimum wage but see what had happened was is that we decided that we are going to not do that. but what we DID decide to do was give huge subsidies to private health insurance companies that are already making record profits. can’t afford medicare for all or paid sick leave though, sorry :( y’all be easy!
doing anything is hard when you’re depressed but sitting around in apathy ain’t gonna help. get the fuck up. seriously. do one thing. open the curtains. dust your monitor. throw away those leftovers in the fridge from last week. clean the bathroom sink. its an ocean of bullshit and you need to swim. break the cycle of misery and guilt and apathy so you can get better. its hard. do it anyway. recovery starts with breaking the cycle. baby steps, but steps.
it’s not ableist or anything to tell someone with depression to do something. look. it’s hard. it sucks. but you wont get better if you don’t do anything. depression is a cycle. you dont have energy to do things, so things dont get done, so you feel guilty, which makes you more depressed, with less energy, and so on. but you can’t recover if you dont start. you can’t get help without getting it. that’s a verb! you need to do it! do something! break the cycle and you’ll start to recover. it’s a long, difficult process, and you can’t do it alone, and you might need medication and therapy, but you can’t get on the road to recovery if you’re staying inside with the curtains closed. you can’t even open the curtains without taking baby steps. you can’t take baby steps until you stand up. so stand up.
