Turn Down For What

(this blog post was originally intended to be something completely different. but something about the best laid plans of mice and men... so i ended up just typing, and only making grammatical corrections when it was done... my apologies for the possibly rambling,semi-coherent way it may come across)

so much of what we seem to place value in matters about as much as the Mary Anne or Ginger debate. we worry about people and things that are beyond our control. we worry about things that are within our control, rather than just handling them. we take meticulous care into choosing what pictures we post online based on lighting and angles and hair. we read other people's tweets and status updates, wondering who they're talking about. we hate on people who seem to be happy. we talk about people who constantly complain, or post too much religious stuff, or brag about their ugly kids. we compare our lives to those of people we barely know, never realizing that they "manage" that image we see in much the same way we "manage" ours. that, in fact, people envy the very things in our lives that we take for granted...

jobs, kids, relationships, friends, family, church, fashion, sports, school, music, travel, sex... whatever it is that we care the most about, it seems that living and loving those things would make for a much better time than constantly looking over our shoulder or giving the side eye at other people and their stuff

i dated a chick whose way of copping an idgaf attitude was disconnecting and saying "do what you do"... she was right (she was wrong about a LOT of other stuff but that's a story for another day) ...the point is, however; do you, and do it to the fullest. anything less is just pissing in the wind, wasting time. life is short, but it's the longest thing we'll ever do. why not do it, make the most lemonade we can

some company has a slogan like LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE ...i don't know that anything else really matters