Every year, I use Halloween as a sort of barometer for how I’m doing, in life and healthwise.
Obviously, this year doesn’t hold up well, like at all.
I’m in no mood for Halloween. I’m frankly tired of being scared. It’s… old, boring. I want to feel happy, for once. I mean, no imaginary monster is worse than the one that is literally eating away at me, right now. The one that is chewing through my life like a ravenous wolf through a fresh kill.
Seriously, not in the mood to be “scared” right now.
They are doing “Halloween” this year in my town, though. We’re not participating. I suppose I may take a glance now and again out a window to look at the costumes. Might be fun. In fact I hear some kids out there right now…
Uhm, nothing, really. They were across the street. It’s probably the whole “not giving out candy” thing that’s keeping them away. Can’t say I blame them, lol. We don’t have the sign in our window, so they know not to bother.
Uh, yeah. It seems so… boring, IDK. Like, this year, and all that is happening. It’s so much fluff. I’m sure it means something to the kids, but, really not much to any adults I know. There is too much else going on, whether it’s something real, or imagined.
And again we’re back to that.
To throw in the requisite Cady reference, today I looked up Cady in those “In Memorium” videos on YouTube. Ugh, THAT was a mistake. I’m sure it’s obvious why. But a comment caught my eye, there. Someone watching the video commented that he was shocked at how many young people were in it, having died of apparent suicides (like, Cady would fit this one).
Kinda makes sense. The life expectancy here in the states is dropping, still. In Canada it’s like 82, or 83. Here in the US it’s like 77, 78. A grim testimony for how shitty our leadership is. And- life is harder, up in the frozen north, than it is, here. The only reason we are dying younger than Canadians is social factors. Like Opioids. And obesity. I mean, real plagues. Not like that made-up “COVID” bullshit.
The leaders here in the US are experts at wasting peoples’ time. Like, they constantly string out ridiculous boogeymen in front of the public as distractions, to avoid any real issues, which they are as a rule incompetent at dealing with. I mean, whether it’s nuclear war, the USSR, COVID, Al-Queda, or any number of other stupid, nonsensical phantasms, it’s all equally junk. All worthless.
The real problems here have been festering now for a hundred years, or more, with no real attempt at remedy. It’s just that we’ve been plundering this rich land of it’s resources, so we’ve had the ability to stave off the day of reckoning. Until now. It’s like, the chickens are coming home to roost, so to speak.
The real problems need fixing, now, or this place will be a desolate wasteland in 100 years, guaranteed. Perhaps sooner.
Ugh. Enough with the fake monsters, people.
Let’s try dealing with some real ones once in a while, OK?