Goddammit, not this guy again. Every time I'm wandering through my head just minding my own business and trying to have a good time, this fucker shows up. Just be cool. You didn't hear him.
"Hey. Hey guy. Hey, guy who didn't write anything today. YOU SUCK!"
Goddammit, not this guy again. Every time I'm wandering through my head just minding my own business and trying to have a good time, this fucker shows up. Just be cool. You didn't hear him.
"Ignoring me? Yeah, that'd work if this was a busy street or some bullshit, maybe. I'M IN YOUR HEAD, JACKASS. You and me are the ONLY PEOPLE HERE RIGHT NOW, SO YOU OBVIOUSLY HEARD ME."
Balls. "Look, alright, it's so important to you, why don't YOU write something? Just let me sit here and nurse my recovering cold and drink coffee and play video games and not care for two seconds."
"Oh yeah? Yeah, I think maybe NO. That's not my job, you fucking scrub. YOU'RE the 'writer,' if you could even call it that. I'M YELLING GUY. I JUST YELL. THAT'S MY THING, AND I'M DOING IT. YOU'RE NOT DOING YOUR THING. THAT'S WHY I'M YELLING. ASSHOLE!"
I really hate it when Yelling Guy is right. I don't like that he lives in my head and has a really negative attitude about everything. But he's right in the sense that, if I don't put forth effort to create on a regular basis, then I'll get sad. And Yelling Guy really doesn't like Sad Guy, because Sad Guy makes him weak and sleepy. So he yells at Lazy Guy to get him to turn into Writing Guy, and as long as Writing Guy is around, then Sad Guy is stuck out in the brush somewhere, and things stay okay.
I spend a lot of time resenting Lazy Guy. He seems like a broken part of the equation, right?
But we need Lazy Guy too, is the thing. Lazy Guy is the one who knows how to chill out and have a good time. Lazy Guy understands that a lot of the problems that we struggle with are self-created ones, and that a good many of them can be solved by just chilling the fuck out, having a beer, or having a nap. Without Lazy Guy around, we would absolutely be hair-chewing pants-shitting bugfuck crazy.
But Lazy Guy has a half life. At a certain point, doing nothing provides diminishing returns. And that's why Yelling Guy is here.
To remind me to keep it moving. Movement is life. Stasis is death. Stay static for long enough to wave hi to gentle death, but keep on moving moving on, because you'll be back to stay before long.
You'll be back to stay, before long.
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