We’ve made it to Wednesday. Welcome back to our daily open thread.
Yesterday was not a stellar day for me. I made the mistake of reading some articles about what the future could look like, which sent me into a spiral of anxiety and despair. As human brains often do (or at least my brain), this despair focused not on the actual big and frightening issues at hand, but on a variety of small problems in my day. I saw a mouse in my apartment, and even though I’ve dealt with similar pests in other homes (“similar,” in this case, including rats and a summer of, to put it mildly, armies of raccoons), I can’t stop stressing about it. Later that night I fucked up my dinner out of impatience and had a total meltdown, blubbering “my chicken thighs!” over the stove like a complete weirdo. Brains are dumb.
Princess Peach’s Leading Role And More New Releases
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In my younger days, before I became an angry anarchist punk, I was a pretty hardcore Zen Buddhist, doing long silent retreats and meditating every day. I’ve been trying to remember some of those skills lately, attempting to focus on what’s happening in the present moment instead of the fears and worries my thoughts churn out that get me so upset. It’s probably a good time to get back to my meditation practice, or at least find some way to slow the freight train of panic that regularly barrels through my head.
