Tag Archives: Mental health

Barbie: A Picture of Mental Illness?

All her careers and fashion styles. It’s not that she can possibly be that talented and capable of  everything. She just has multiple personality disorder, but she uses the same first name instead to changing it up. Look how supportive the world has been to mental illness all these years! We should be proud of ourselves.

Lesson: be like Barbie. Keep starting new careers. Have so many people should begin to lose count!
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The Grandfather

Hello! This is Charlie Two speaking.

We all have or had grandparents whether we knew them or not. I however did know mine. This is a short story of one man.

He was tall, gentle, quiet and a good spirit. He lived a life in times most have forgotten by now. He didn’t live the highest life but he certainly did not live the lowest life ever. He had friends in life, he had siblings, he still has family and to my knowledge it will continue beyond my years:)

He was a cutter. He worked for a clothing maker. Unfortunately for some of us family he had not made us any suits but rather passed down the family genes. These genes didn’t fit every family member the same. Some of us just had to clean them regularly. Others had to bear them like a cross (if you are a believer). I chose to wear them with pride regardless of circumstance or outcome. The genes didn’t suit me but I will wear them proudly. I am after all quite fond of family heirlooms.

We were all something different and meant something special to him. I am just the ball player but between him and I, that would have always been more than enough.

People like us, whether we wear the pants well or not. If we like it or not, are simple but withing a sea of nonsensical complexity appear to be the odd balls. Oddballs get remembered. Oddballs are uniquely loved. Oddballs don’t easily fit into a box but four walls can be built around us and we like it just fine.

These four loving walls are what keep an oddball happy within a scape of rules and regulations.

Love yourself, love your friend, love your family and love what you do with your life today like no other day matters.

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Anyone Lose Their Marbles?

Sounds like someone keeps dropping one marble at a time in the penthouse above my condo. I never hear any of my neighbors, just the marbles.  It’s kind of startling and funny cause I don’t know what they keep dropping or why.
… But if it is marbles, I’m up for a game now. Wasn’t before, but the noise woke me.
Unless of course they are actually slowly losing their marbles, in which case I should call the psych ward. To be neighborly… you understand!?
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