Claim Thy Happiness!#TADA

Gooday my lovelies… YES… IT IS ME... I have landed ...again… for the umpteenth time lmao. Yo! This adulting thing bruh... just when you think you got a handle on the reigns of it, it’s like b****, I just transfigured into a damn fire breathing flying fox. In summary, adulting got us in a choke hold for a while but we are fighters, and we are transcending surviving, thriving, and shooting for glorious manifestations of succeeding... halleluiah. 

All seriousness, it has been crazy these last ALMOST two years... YES… it has been that long since our world toppled on its head to shake out the bullshit for everyone to see. It still seems like there is more bullshit that gets shaken out every day and there are not enough eyes to see all the bullshit equally. We have collectively dealt with “leaders” with questionable senses of sanity and humanity, mindless wars are still being fought with civilians on the receiving end of the violence (meanwhile the so-called commanders-in-chief are not on the damn front lines smh…if you’re going to declare war, be ready to take the first damn bullet). Anyway, to continue my list of global bullshits (plural) I have already mentioned airhead leaders, stupid wars, policing of others gender and sexual dispositions #killthebill #queerlivesmatter, natural disasters and of course almighty Covid with its beautifully capitalized complications, vaccines, and pending remedies. 

Disclaimer… I advocate for do what is best for you but make sure it doesn’t harm the person next you and now I plead the fifth. All through this, if you are reading this, it means you somehow found a way to stay alive. 

When I first started this shenanigan... I just wanted it to be a space where I could interact with humans who cared for other humans. But also use this as a space to speak to issues, for people who fall within cracks of systems that ready don’t give two shits and to entertain us of course. Life can get too hard to meet y’all with too much seriousness. It IS deep, but I am not here to make it deathly. This is why it is imperative that amidst this madness, we find ways to revel in life. It is hard to be happy sometimes when the consumerist ‘western’ world around us makes us believe we need external stimulations to be happy. 

Now, security is paramount to stability and I say this to say it’s going to be a little difficult to be completely “at peace” when you do not have food to eat or a roof over your head. Nonetheless, we lighten the load of weariness when we take a moment to relish the world around us. The sights, sounds, smells, people… people are particularly interesting. You could look in the same place every day for a week and find something new if you look closely and pay attention. Take pleasure in a cup of cheap coffee, in hearing a new song, in seeing a funnily shaved dog, in becoming an aunty to two pets (I have two nephews who are a cat and dog lol) … take pleasure in being able to taste a decent or decadent meal. Take pleasure in the little things because pleasure equates happiness and when one is happy, it is easy to love. Thank you for keeping up with me and I will see you in two weeks. 

Until later, 

T <3

Photo Credit: Eye for Ebony @eyeforebony , Music: The Cavemen