It's Friday. On Friday we make lists. Lists are easy. People like lists. Take my bosses, for example: My bosses would always rather read a bulleted list than long paragraphs of narrative text, however eloquent or well-crafted. Lists give you time to breathe. Lists have empty spaces between the words where your eyes can rest while you remember what it was like when you were little and everything was peaceful and easy and no one sent you lists to read.
A list should have a theme. Today's list has the following theme: "Alternating Things I Like and Things I Dislike In No Certain Order (Except, of Course, for the Aforementioned Alternation)". Enjoy.
- LIKE: Sometimes, when you have a harpoon stuck all the way through your shoulder, you find this certain position in which, for a few seconds, the agonizing pain goes away and you feel, temporarily, like you might survive this horrible accident and like surviving would be better than not surviving. I like that.
- DISLIKE: Getting a harpoon stuck all the way through your shoulder.
- LIKE: When your muscles hurt from sobbing and your eyes have run dry and you just cannot muster the energy or moisture to shed another tear and you collapse, defeated, into the couch, your body releases chemicals that make you feel peaceful in spite of nightmarish sorrow. I like that.
- DISLIKE: Nightmarish sorrow.
- LIKE: Post-emesis endorphins.
- DISLIKE: Pre-emesis retching.
- LIKE: The peace that comes with resignation to mortality.
- DISLIKE: Mortality.
- LIKE: The fleeting, stolen moments of passion human lovers share fiercely and urgently while hiding among the crumbling ruins of society's last few moments.
- DISLIKE: Coitus interruptus.
- LIKE: Flashes of magic in the monotonous doldrums of restless routine.
- DISLIKE: The monotonous doldrums of restless routine.
How about you?
Hello, friends. How are you?
Later. Love.
