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The impact of nothing days
Diem non captum. A reflection on how to handle Nothing Days, and when they can be useful.
“Allow for a quiet moment, and remind yourself why it will be alright.”
A good ol’ nothing-burger of a day today. We all come upon them from time-to-time.
Maybe it’s the extra day within a long weekend or a buffer day after a vacation. Maybe it’s a rainy day that commands you to stay in bed. Maybe it’s a day just like any other.
For whatever reason, it turns out to be a day that you’ve decided to say, “Fuck it” to. And behold: The Nothing Day.
There’s no work to be done. There’s no reason to go outside. There’s nothing to look forward to. The world is off until next time.
Diem non captum.
Oh, well. As long as these days aren’t too often, they seem quite fine. Your body will even tell you when you need a nothing day after too many in a row of the opposite variety.
So don’t feel to guilty about it. Hell, enjoy it. It’s a day off from all this, just for you. R&R that ND. Have something fun for dinner too, while you’re at it.
That said, if you are still feeling guilty about it, maybe some loose change is in order. It’s likely you’ve had too many nothing-burgers in a row and you feel like shit for it. Not to worry, we’ve all been there, and there’s a sure path back to enjoying The Nothing Day again. It starts with…
Eh, it can wait until tomorrow.
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Still Moments
From Fire & Earth: A ThoughPose Poetry Collection | 9/1/2024
Still, they can’t be captured
The moments must remain free
Just retrievable to try and reimagine
For less than what they were at the time
But something more than a mere memory
Still, they will remain dormant until awoken
By a look or a smell or a phrase or a melody
Like an innocent secret between all of those
That might have been right there, right then
Search as they flash in images, like looking
Into an old, damaged View-Master lens,
But not having control over the lever to
Cycle through each still frame in order
So the reel spins chaotically so as to
See them all at once; they tell such
A different story than expected
Still, they’re a nice reminder
Where one comes from,
Who one is made of
What was vs. is
And to take a
Moment now
And again to
Just sit and
Be Still
Bestill
Be
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