The reason there was no blog yesterday was sudden and massive computer failure, my trusty old notebook just up and decided to not be so trusty, it gave up the ghost, it bought the farm, most everything is saved, my books are books, even the novel I’m working on will be 9/10ths recoverable and the essentials are in my head and, of course, still down in longhard, old fashioned pen on paper cursive, semi-legible writing so it will all be cool in the end. H will take it into the shop today and see if it can be revived, if there is some kind of way to shock it out of its coma but, for now, I am typing this up on a replacement model, an old thing we had in the corner gathering dust, which is slow and hits me every few seconds with a pop-up box in Polish and I never know whether to click Tak or Nie but, in all fairness, I never know in English, either.
So, I will not cheat and backdate this. I will just write 2 blogs today and this is one, with half an hour before I need to leave and go to my first class, there will be no photo, no links, and then I’ll do another tonight and I hope things will be back to normal but it might not be that instant.
Here’s my topic: Internet friend Grace posted a lovely little picture the other day with one of those platitudinal sentences, not my favorite type of facebook entry as a general rule, but the comments showed that it worked as an interesting mini-Rohrschach, a two possibility way of dividing the people of the world. The sentence was something along the lines of “Next time you’re feeling depressed, try NOT feeling depressed.” About half of us were saying “That’s beautiful,”and about half thought she was joking or, in any event, that it was a really silly thought, because depression is real and sometimes caused by chemical imbalances in the brain and also some people’s lives are seriously shittier than others and you can’t just plaster that over with “La la la, everything is beautiful” and I understand their point, the power of positive thinking does not change the actual circumstances of the physical world but, the way I see it, happiness is the goal and there’s no reason in the world not to use every tool in the box to get there.
Also, even though positive thinking is an abstract, enough of an abstract, piled up upon itself, will somehow, some day, make a leap into reality, just like once there is a sufficient amount of inanimate matter in the Universe and a sufficient amount of energy bouncing around, then, given an infinite amount of time in which to work, sooner or later there is going to be a spark of life.
At least, there is no reason to fight against it. Don’t be depressed. Be happy. At least try. It might work. If it doesn’t, try again tomorrow.
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