Therapy: The misery contest
In Crimes and Misdemeanors there’s a character who keeps saying, “Comedy is tragedy over time.” Someday you will look on the worst days you’ve ever had, and laugh. For now you can just describe it in comments under Perspective (the previous post) and try to cheer yourself up with the thought that there are people out there who make your life look like a wine and cheese picnic on George Clooney’s Lake Como estate. Which incidentally has been cited as one of the most polluted spots in Italy. Rewind to previous thought—is this one reason why people take up humanitarian causes (I’m not saying it’s the only reason)?
Quite often these days I feel like a hamster that’s been running and running and is about to fall off the wheel from sheer exhaustion, but knows that if it stops some schmuck will pick it up and stick it in a place that’s fun for the schmuck but not for the hamster, you know what I’m saying?
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August 3rd, 2007 at 13:24
Minsan parang ganito:
“And now I felt that it was not enough: I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer.”
Minsan naman:
“Then,” I cried, half desperate, “grant me at least a new servitude”. . .”A new servitude! There is something in that. . . I know there is because it does not sound too sweet. . . I have served eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere. . . I want this because it is of no use wanting anything better.”
Lalo na pag sa call center ka. It’s the ultimate hamster wheel.
August 3rd, 2007 at 14:01
Be brave. Jump off the wheel and run. To New York, Prague, Paris, Venice, Shanghai. Manila is too parochial for you.
August 6th, 2007 at 15:35
Sometimes, how i wish that parralel universe Jessica sometimes talks about really exists – i wanna be there at times – you know, just to be indifferent to what’s happening in your real world. Here’s a fact: when you’re 36 and a single parent of 2 lovely kids, you find it hard to switch jobs, so you stay in one job u truly love for like 10 years already, yet at the back of your mind, you really just wanna stop working and be a full time mom – a luxury you know you can’t afford anymore. So, you opt to stay in that vicious wheel. No choice. Or the 2 other hamsters will perish