Rules for Right Now
The phrase is “hold fast to dreams”, but Hughes didn’t write a refrain for dreams dashed by a no-reply email server.
The phrase is “hold fast to dreams”, but Hughes didn’t write a refrain for dreams dashed in seconds by a no-reply email server from a faceless corporation.
To make up for this omission, I have done so, in the form of a list.
Here’s how to cope when you’re laid off, get rejected for endless jobs per day for 3 months, and have rent due today.
Offer to pay for everything. Their food, your food, even buy them a little gift. Then your friends won’t think you need anyone’s help, ever!
Secretly count every single cent in your grocery cart. Count wrong. Tap card. Cry.
Pour your attention into various small-scale crafts.
Listen to people when they say it’s not the market, you aren’t trying hard enough. Reaaaally internalize it!
At nanny-kid school pickup, you will see a third grader playing recorder out of a Maybach. Ignore it. This is normal on 80-somethingth between Park and Madison.
Make your bed for exactly one week, but never again.
Cry. Sleep 11 ‘til 10. Stare at wall.
Do not look at your bank account unless necessary.
Go for a little walk down the block even if it’s cold. Keep paying your gym membership anyway.
Forget. Everything. Constantly.
Do dishes and dishes and more dishes.
Start leash training your cat.
Fork over the $ for biweekly therapy.
Question if biweekly means once every other week or every two weeks, and if that means the same thing or not?
Try to write more. Just try.
Load lots of cash on your laundry card before you lose your job…
And be a mind reader. Predict when you’ll lose your job. Hint: It’s right after the second day off you’ve ever taken.
Remember that your cat will not cuddle with you, even when you’re so sad you can’t fathom making dry cereal on a paper plate.
But remember your partner will drop everything the second you call.
Consider deleting your email account.
Do not move back to your hometown.
oh she spilled a bit i fear