The Dumbest Answer

The dumbest answer

Q: Why do people walk slower when it's cold?

A: Because all the water in our bodies is frozen.

I've learned just recently that there are more introverts out there in the world than regular people and extroverts combined. It just doesn't seem like it because they're all hiding.

I kind of take that as a challenge to find them... on days when I feel social, that is

I really dislike when you neurotypicals think you know what's best for others.

Isabelle, To The Moon

Before you click play, let me make something very clear:

I don't listen to music with lyrics. Ever.

Is 2014 here yet?

I have mixed feelings about this past year.

There have been a lot of good things that happened over the year. I greatly appreciate those, and will look back on them with fondness as I go throughout my life. But I can't quite say that about the year in sum, as there have been so many bad things that happened; maybe they don't outweigh the scope of the good things, but they definitely outweigh the number of them. Even the good things have had strings attached...

Whatever the case, 2013 has been a long, stressful rollercoaster for me, and has well overstayed its welcome. At first I enjoyed the length that each day seemed to drag on for, as it meant I was getting more time out of each moment. I'm not feeling that way anymore... Everything is soooooo sloooooooowwww. I can't deal with the waiting game and the "wow it feels like ten but it's only six" anymore. Can't I have a normal day? Not incredibly short, not incredibly long, just a day where an hour actually feels like an hour. What makes all this worse is that most of the people I talk to say that the year flew by for them (except my dad, who's been having the same problem).

So I'm done with 2013. I'll treasure my few memories of the year like I would any other memory, but it can go away now.

2014 seems like it will be a good year. I can't really pinpoint anything to look forward to, but I have high hopes for some inexplicable reason. I've felt this way since the decade started. Let me don my psychic abilities for a second: something is going to happen that will rock my world (in a good way), and numerous other nice things will happen, but at the cost of one thing that I'll forever look back on with dissatisfaction.

Maybe that'll happen? I dunno. But I really want to figure out. And 2013 isn't going to go out politely, I bet.

Whose bright idea was it to say that you're an "adult" at a certain age? To dump a bunch of responsibility all at once on someone who still plays Mario and obsesses over sugary food? To put someone who hardly understands the world on equal footing with everyone else, just because this person has lived an arbitrary number of years?

I'm surprised anyone has this figured out. And if they don't, they sure look like they do. (Most of the time.)