Category — Microblog Mondays

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Truman got a cold.  I was sitting down to a very stressful plate of work when I heard him sneeze several times.  I turned around and snot was coming out of his nose.  He politely wiped it away with his paw.

I decided to clean his cage before I started working.  Midway through cleaning the cage, he started wheezing.  He wasn’t wheezing so hard that he couldn’t go after a cookie I hid at the top of the stairs in his playpen.  But wheezing nonetheless.

I called the vet feeling a little foolish because… you know… it was a cold, right?  But the vet told me to bring him in.  When I got in there, I started sobbing because I was so scared that it was going to be like Cozy.  Out of context, I’m sure I looked like a lunatic, crying over the fact that my guinea pig was sneezing.  But… what if?

I went home with medication for his upper respiratory infection.  He’s totally himself personalitywise, just with a runny nose.

I said it with Cozy and I’ll say it again: “It doesn’t matter how small you are; you can still be deeply loved.”

Do you have a pet you fret over and love intensely?

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Sibyl Moon Games had a post a while back about deciding to leave a game unfinished.

She writes so perfectly: “Creative work is a gamble.  Each time you sit down at your computer – or your notebook, or your easel, or whatever the tools of your specific pursuit may be – then you’re betting you can capture something from your mind and convey it to your audience’s.”

She goes on to admit that part of being a game-maker (or a writer or an artist or an actress or a musician) is also knowing when to walk away and commit your energy elsewhere.  Not every idea will be brought to fruition, and not every project started will be completed.

How do you prioritize where your creative hours go?  Have you ever had to walk away from a project and did doing so create space for other work?

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It’s sort of amusing that this is the 40th MicroblogMonday because today is also my last day being 40.  Tomorrow I turn 41, and you might as well save your birthday wishes until then because today is about still being 40.  I am 40, damnit, and don’t make me age before I’m ready.

The last day of a personal year (as opposed to the calendar year) is so bittersweet because you know that you can’t slow time.  You know that tomorrow you will wake up and be an entirely new age.  And that is odd, you know, the idea that I will describe myself differently tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be for birthday celebrations.  Today is a last day celebration.

What is the perfect way to spend a last day?  What would be your ideal last day before a birthday?

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I’m currently devouring V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic, and I came across a quote that I found applicable to any struggle in life.  Kell is lamenting that the landscape of his magical world changes too quickly, and he finds comfort in a non-magical city where the buildings go up through hard work and remain for centuries.

In Red London, tastes turned as often as seasons, and with them, buildings went up and came down and went up again in different forms.  Magic made things simple.  Sometimes, thought Kell, it made things too simple.

So it’s the drawback of something coming easily: you may not appreciate the magnitude of the accomplishment.  The student who never has to study may not reach graduation with the same emotion as the student who struggles to make Bs and Cs.  Do the wealthy put the same care into their possessions knowing that they’re replaceable?

We often talk about how struggle makes you more appreciative, and certainly in the infertility community, we often attribute a commitment to parenting as stemming from how long it takes to create the family.

Do you think struggles make you more appreciate of things, or do you think it’s possible to be just as appreciative if things come easily?

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I just finished We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler (totally enjoyable read!), and he had an interesting thought on page 268:

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.  We are pirates.

So often, without meaning to, due to the way life is set up, we do steal happiness from others.  For one person to win, a lot of other people need to lose.  For every actress chosen for a part, she has inadvertently left a lot of unhappy people in her wake.  And when we are coming from behind, the idea of grabbing happiness ourselves (not thinking about the people who will be made unhappy due to our happiness) causes us to strive ahead, reaching for the brass ring, so to speak.

There are obviously situations where more than one person can be happy at the same time.  Where no one loses something due to someone else’s gain, but I think we also know that our own unhappiness feels so much heavier when we compare it to someone’s happiness.  That we tell other people about our happiness without being conscious of the idea that we are making other people jealous.  So there is that, too.

What do you think?  Do you think someone needs to be made unhappy in order for other people to be happy?

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