Why is it, when something bad is going to happen, that it’s definitely going to to be bad, why do we tell each other that everything will still “be alright.” Does everyone have a some sort of anti-reality complex, that cannot process the notion that, actually, everything is not okay right now. Right now actually kind of sucks. I’m going to tell you to stop telling me that it’s going to be alright, because it’s not alright at all, and I’d appreciate if you could take a big breath with me and say, “This may not turn out well. And that’s a fact.”
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I think we tell ourselves that things will be alright, because deep down, we know its true.
Look, we’re both writers. And isn’t that what we’re always telling ourselves while we’re writing? I can go days, and days, writing garbage. And when you’re down there, it feels, very firmly, truly, that I’ll never write anything of quality again.
But it ain’t true, right? So I tell myself “you’ll get better, tomorrow will be a better day”, and eventually, I’m RIGHT. And then I realize that all the hard days when I kept on writing, traveling forward, they were all worth it.
We often have to tell ourselves true thing because it feels like they can’t be true. Does that make sense? I guess its a paradox.
So I guess, what I’m saying is, you shouldn’t stop. Telling yourselves that things, somehow… maybe not in any way that seems possible right now, that things will work out.
Well, depending on what you’re referring to, everything may have already worked out alright. For example, if you discussing my long drive home last night, I seemed to survive it. See what I did there?