dear lucasarts, how much do I have to pay for you to hire Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christiensen, Natalie Portman, and Yoda to do a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 of The Force Awakens completely in character and dressed as force ghosts
Thinking about future historians being pissed as hell at us any time they come across something weird/unusual, because they can’t be sure if it’s legit or just one of us trolling them from beyond the grave.
But also, which inane parts of our lives will read as absurd? Like will they be like, okay but obviously roller blades were just an elaborate troll?
Anything you don’t want future historians to see should be prefaced with Never Gonna Give You Up. They’ll immediately recognize it as a joke and turn to something else without getting through that part.
Okay, but that suggests that any history we truly want to hide, we just preface with Rick Astley, because everyone’s gonna ignore it.
(Except for that one grad student who suspects our shenanigans, writes paper after labored paper that everyone ignores, and hates us more than all the other academicians combined.)
I once said to my therapist after a particularly hard week, “I wish I could just fix all of my problems and move on to live a normal life”
And he looked at me and said, “There is no finish line”.
Those words felt like a stab in my heart, but they were words that I desperately needed to hear. There is no finish line to my problems. It’s not possible to get through a certain point in life and have my problems simply disappear. And it’s unhealthy to think that way. Up to that point in my life, that’s what I though recovery was. I thought it was like working your way forward until it seems like your problems never existed in the first place.
The finish line does not exist. Instead, everyone has a capacity for recovery. You may never completely rid yourself of whatever causes you pain, but you will move miles from where you started. Don’t set your expectations too high and create that theoretical finish line in your life, or you will only end up chasing it. Instead, focus on your own capacity for recovery, and be proud of yourself for every step you take.
[Image: Three different images of makeouts. 1: Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers, both not wearing shirts; Natasha’s hand is on Steve’s cheek and she’s talking; Steve is smiling. 2: Bucky Barnes leaning over Steve, who is lying on his back; Bucky’s hand is under the covers, as if he’s jerking Steve off. 3: Bucky lying on his back, Natasha lying on top of him and kissing his neck, her arms around his shoulders.]