Talk to someone

I have been feeling a bit blue lately. I can be honest with you, dear reader. We are all friends here. It wouldn’t be Monday without a bit of complaining now, would it? I won’t be doing that. I stopped doing that long ago, and everyone should follow suit. That’s not to say I don’t get upset by things regularly. I do. I rarely “complain” outright about anything. It has done me a world of good. Today’s blog’s advice isn’t to stop complaining. Today’s advice is to talk to people. Simple as that.

I will be honest, last night; I was casually brainstorming ideas for today’s blog before I went to bed. I didn’t have any ideas as of 10 pm last night. I have taken to leaving a notebook and pen by my bedside. It has been really helpful in moments like this. Last night, my friend Kurt called me out of the blue. We haven’t spoken in a few weeks. Not that we fell out or anything. We just had our own lives going on.

You are a human if you are reading this, I assume. Sorry if I offend you. Remember when all the badness of 2020/2021 was finally over, and the world started making sense again? Maybe it was just me, but I found myself genuinely finding it difficult to straight-up string sentences together. When I talked to Kurt, whom I hadn’t spoken to in a few weeks, my mouth was like this laptop. It was taking forever to boot up. I was saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and getting basic facts wrong. Sure, you could attribute that to general tiredness. I did walk a lot yesterday. I hate to brag, but I did. Eventually, my mouth and brain started working again, and we had a good, wholesome conversation.

To conclude, talk to people. Talk to people you love. Don’t talk to people you hate. Talk to strangers, even if it is a simple hello. Get out there. Get those mouth muscles moving. Just don’t get yourself in any hot water.

I’m off to the cinema today. I’m going to see The Whale. I have to go to Dublin, but that is okay with me. I have a meeting tomorrow about my poetry collection. If you haven’t heard, check out Friday’s blog.

Talk to people. Talk to yourself. Talk to me. Thank you for reading. Tangerine. Thank you for your time.