It’s pretty much always a good time to watch Bob Ross.
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Teacher: [smiling] 'Okay everyone, gather ‘round. It’s reading time!’
[Kids look at each other with concern]
Teacher: [still smiling] ‘C’mon, let’s get in a circle!’
[Kid raises hand]
Teacher: Yes, Jake?
Jake: Is it that Sartre guy again?
Teacher: Nope! This is someone completely new.
[Kids look at each other with restrained relief and start forming a circle around the teacher]
Teacher: Okay. Today we’ll be reading ‘The Last Messiah’ by Peter Wessel Zapffe.*
*Recommended reading only for those interested in exploring the hadalpelagic zone of existentialism.
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And I’ve been accused of being dark. There’s nothing like a good dose of existentialism to cheer me up.
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FWIW, if there’s any way you can wear soft contacts instead, consider doing so. Hard contacts damage the ligaments that work your eyelids, to the point where you might not be able to raise your eyelids above your pupils, which then obviously affects your sight. Plus, you look half-stoned (or exhausted) all the time. Not really a professional look at the office!
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Were they playing Bohemian Rhapsody at the daycare?
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'Cheer up—things get worse!'
In my experience, this statement is a litmus test for fellow existentialists (assuming the other person hasn’t heard it), as evaluated by the other person’s reaction:
Refutes statement outright --> discuss only weather with this person
Confused look --> move on to another topic
Smile --> feel free to skip any small talk with this person
Chuckle --> talk about hanging out sometime
Giggle --> talk about going out on a date sometime
Laughter --> marry this person
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In case you don’t have time for an entire episode, and I am pretty sure this is a repost… this wonderful Bob Ross mix by John Boswell (“melodysheep”):
I love melodysheep’s stuff. It’s been on bOINGbOING from time to time, but since it’s such a fun, kind, high quality work, it’s worth it to remind folks that it’s still out there for our amusement and edification.
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Without corrective lenses I have 20/1500 vision.
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Is that poor? 
(Did you see that wink?)
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a partial antidote to some of the ills of this world:
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My pop has been wearing hard contacts for decades (I forget why, but something prevents him from wearing soft lenses–I’m sure he wishes he could). My sympathies.
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I didn’t say don’t use corrective lenses! Soft lenses have come a long way. For example, mine allow me to have 4 separate prescriptions in them. And they are so much less damaging to your eyes.
I would also be legally blind if I couldn’t be corrected, so I know how hard it is. And just wait until you get old enough that reading at close range gets affected! Then you can’t see at any distance at all without help.
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I tried sot lenses about4 years ago? Everything was blurry for 2 days.
I am disturbed at how I have a hard time transitioning from looking at a book/phone-reader to the tv/horizon and back. That started up about 2 years ago. SIGH.
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Presbyopia. All of us get it. It never gets better, but you do learn to compensate.
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“One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.”
- James Hagerty
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That’s a bad feeling, realizing you lost a hard lens. I’ve had them literally just be like ‘fuck you im out’, and pop out of my eye into nothingness for no reason at all. That meant a $200 trip to the pervy eye doctor. Went to soft lenses for a few years even though Dr. advised against because of my astigmatism. Finally just said forget it and got coke-bottle glasses and couldn’t be happier. Even though I get a lot less flirting. I guess I’m not interested in the type of girl that wouldn’t flirt with a guy just because he wears glasses anyways.
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So so so sorry. I don’t know you or your brother, but I know the pain and insanity of addiction, and the pain and discomfort that addicts try to treat with drugs. I was the brother who od’ed a few times, but made it out by sheer dumb luck and a few shots of well-timed Narcan.
I hope it is not offensive to you for me to say this: remember your brother for who he was to you when he wasn’t using. I believe it is probably who he really was. When I was using I was a completely different person. Please take care of yourself, and please forgive us all for helping to create a world that your brother, myself, and millions of others struggle to live in and find our places in.
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Roman Catholic, myself.
I’m looking into getting a motorcycle.
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