Maybe it's the end of the holidays. Maybe it's just fears of what the new year might bring. Maybe it's just the season, the long dark, cold nights, but I've been feeling blue of late, particulary today when I awoke to start off the first workday of the new year. I didn't get as much holiday time off as I would like and probably never will again, but I find that this time of year I need more rest than I typically get. Some days I feel like I could sleep for hours, but if I do stay in bed too long, my back gets screwed up, and today for some reason, my back is really nagging me. I normally have a monthly massotherapy appointment on the first Monday of each month, but this time, we bumped it to Wednesday instead due to the spate of holidays that fell these past few weeks. I sure could have used my appointment today with my balky back. It hurts like hell. I spent the evening with a moist heating pad on it, but it still really hurts. Maybe I bent funny at work or something leaning down to get something. I don't know. All I know is that it's not doing any wonders for my mood today. I just wish that I could snap out of it and be happy, but on some days, I find that increasingly difficult as I grow older. I get frustrated so easily these days and I find myself less willing to suffer fools gladly. My patience isn't what it once was. I think to myself, gee, the whole world at times is acting like a bunch of high school kids and didn't we outgrow that already? But maybe this is just my current mood talking. I don't know. I just want things to get better in the world, for people to stop acting like a bunch of boobs and to get along and share the toys and all that other stuff your mother teaches you when you are growing up. And mind your elders, too.
What ever happened to simple civility and respect? It seems like the world we are now inhabiting is increasingly devoid of common manners that we were all taught as children. It doesn't take much to put me in a foul mood anymore. All I need to do is to just open the newspaper or scan the Internet and I can see that people are just acting foolish anymore and not at all like civil beings or adults. There's too much childish behavior out there for my liking these days. I suppose this is part of what is responsible for my feeling somewhat blue these days, well, that and the sour economy that seems to have no end in sight and what it is doing to threaten my job, from which I hope to retire in a few years. All I can hope for is that I will be able to make it until I am eligible to retire and then get out of there with my pension and retirement benefits and go on with my life after that. But then, that's a few years away yet. I'll hang on until then and hope and pray that things get better economically, but I'm not optimistic that any sort of recovery will happen under our current new administration and legislature. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Having heard what they stand for, it's certainly not for the little guy. Sadly, our country is rapidly heading for an oligarchy, if it's not already there. And there's very little can be done to stop it, either, not when a wealthy powerful few have all the money and hold all the cards. Too bad the average Joe or Jane Lunchbucket voters who continually put these people into office don't realize that they are voting against their own economic self interest. You'd think they'd realize by now that these guys don't give a damn about Main Street. Don't know what it's going to take to make folks see what they're doing, but they keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over again by voting in people who are working for Wall Street, not Main Street. As I said before, my patience wears thin these days as I simply no longer have the emotional energy to suffer fools gladly.......and therein lies the source of my latest case of the blues, I suppose, at least partially. I hope that I can say that like anything else, this, too, shall pass.
Maybe it's the end of the holidays. Maybe it's just fears of what the new year might bring. Maybe it's just the season, the long dark, cold nights, but I've been feeling blue of late, particulary today when I awoke to start off the first workday of the new year. I didn't get as much holiday time off as I would like and probably never will again, but I find that this time of year I need more rest than I typically get. Some days I feel like I could sleep for hours, but if I do stay in bed too long, my back gets screwed up, and today for some reason, my back is really nagging me. I normally have a monthly massotherapy appointment on the first Monday of each month, but this time, we bumped it to Wednesday instead due to the spate of holidays that fell these past few weeks. I sure could have used my appointment today with my balky back. It hurts like hell. I spent the evening with a moist heating pad on it, but it still really hurts. Maybe I bent funny at work or something leaning down to get something. I don't know. All I know is that it's not doing any wonders for my mood today. I just wish that I could snap out of it and be happy, but on some days, I find that increasingly difficult as I grow older. I get frustrated so easily these days and I find myself less willing to suffer fools gladly. My patience isn't what it once was. I think to myself, gee, the whole world at times is acting like a bunch of high school kids and didn't we outgrow that already? But maybe this is just my current mood talking. I don't know. I just want things to get better in the world, for people to stop acting like a bunch of boobs and to get along and share the toys and all that other stuff your mother teaches you when you are growing up. And mind your elders, too.
What ever happened to simple civility and respect? It seems like the world we are now inhabiting is increasingly devoid of common manners that we were all taught as children. It doesn't take much to put me in a foul mood anymore. All I need to do is to just open the newspaper or scan the Internet and I can see that people are just acting foolish anymore and not at all like civil beings or adults. There's too much childish behavior out there for my liking these days. I suppose this is part of what is responsible for my feeling somewhat blue these days, well, that and the sour economy that seems to have no end in sight and what it is doing to threaten my job, from which I hope to retire in a few years. All I can hope for is that I will be able to make it until I am eligible to retire and then get out of there with my pension and retirement benefits and go on with my life after that. But then, that's a few years away yet. I'll hang on until then and hope and pray that things get better economically, but I'm not optimistic that any sort of recovery will happen under our current new administration and legislature. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Having heard what they stand for, it's certainly not for the little guy. Sadly, our country is rapidly heading for an oligarchy, if it's not already there. And there's very little can be done to stop it, either, not when a wealthy powerful few have all the money and hold all the cards. Too bad the average Joe or Jane Lunchbucket voters who continually put these people into office don't realize that they are voting against their own economic self interest. You'd think they'd realize by now that these guys don't give a damn about Main Street. Don't know what it's going to take to make folks see what they're doing, but they keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over again by voting in people who are working for Wall Street, not Main Street. As I said before, my patience wears thin these days as I simply no longer have the emotional energy to suffer fools gladly.......and therein lies the source of my latest case of the blues, I suppose, at least partially. I hope that I can say that like anything else, this, too, shall pass.
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Talk radio has bludgeoned civility to death. I invite you (unabashed liberal) to check out my post on Troutbirder II regarding politically correcting Mark Twain. :)
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