meh, what's the point?

[AlienGirl]

[Az]

1. Thats the beauty of it, the point is whatever you want it to be

Some get overwhelmed with the possibilities.

[AlienGirl]

2. I hope this isn't a red x

There are days I really wish Invader Zim was still in production. There are days I wish I could bug Keph with ZADR. There are days I really wish there wasn't a war going on. There are days I wish the economy was better. And there are days I wish I didn't know all the horrible things I know.

Sometimes, it's all the same day.

Tucker

[Az]

4. Muwahahaha

Its a red x.

[AlienGirl]

5. Of course it is...

Fan-art, the great red X of the cyber-world...

Tucker

[Az]

6. Well then here is what you do

You realise that one day somewhere, sometime in the future you will be happy again. Things will make sense. You will smile. Its not today. Maybe not even tomorrow. You keep on keeping on for that moment to come.

In the meantime we dance.

[AlienGirl]

7. Dance the Apocalypso!

Actually, I was never happy.

Well, maybe when I was thirteen months old...that was kind of a sweet and happy time.

[Az]

8. Never said you would be happy forever

Some of us only get moments of happiness. I suffer from shadow depression and have had bouts of clinical depression. I don't get to take happiness for granted. But what I can expect is that happiness does come.

I think it works like similar to this. There is no such thing as luck. But we should always live as if we expected good luck. This is because good things happen around us all the time. But if we aren't looking for them we can miss them. So if we expect good luck we can notice the things that can be good for us when they happen.

Happiness is the same way. We shouldn't expect that happiness is owed to us. But if we live as if we think something good could happen any time then we can take advantage of it when it comes.

I guess what it boils down to is acknowledge your current state of mind. But don't look to continue it. Keep an eye open for good things that are always coming our way. Perhaps we have gotten too good at find the bad things that come our way.

[AlienGirl]

9. You ever get something in your head, and

can't get it out again?

Are you familiar with James tiptree, Jr. and her "flinch" hypothesis?

[Az]

10. Everyone gets that

But I don't know the Flinch hypothesis.

[AlienGirl]

11. Tiptree said

that there are only a few people to whom others' pain is *real*. She said you could recognize them, by the way they flinch at what is to everyone else only news.

She was one of them.

[Az]

12. Ick, I think I may be one of those

Always far more empathetic than is probably good for me.

[AlienGirl]

13. Tiptree didn't have much hope for them

In her stories all the "flinchers" either suicide or manage to book passage to some better world.

[CanuckAmok]

3. Ask Oblio what the point is.

Damn, that's obscure, even for me.

[regnaD kciN]

14. Not all THAT obscure...

...even for a real "straight-arrow"...