Christmas Advice

~ Clarissa

Do you sometimes have those days when you feel ugly, stupid, useless, fat, and irrelevant?

I do. Today is such a day for some reason. And even posting the list of my 2014 accomplishments didn’t help.

I lost a button from my coat and now I feel like a total failure of a human being because I can’t figure out where to buy buttons.

So I go into a store (that obviously doesn’t sell buttons) and feel even more useless, fat, ugly, stupid, and irrelevant. And then a very elegant black lady looks at me and says, “Wow, you look so pretty!”

And I felt better.

So here is my Christmas advice: say nice things to people because, who knows, maybe on this day they really need to hear something kind.

P.S. I blame Putin. No, seriously, I stared at his ugly mug for 2 hours yesterday, and today I feel like shit. That’s hardly a coincidence.

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14 thoughts on “Christmas Advice”

  1. A craft store might have buttons. I have those days, too. :\ They suck. I’m sorry you’re having one of them. Also, you are extremely intelligent.

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  2. I am sorry you are feeling that way. For what it’s worth, my jaw dropped when I read your list! I never get that much done in just one year! And I’m glad that someone said something to make you feel good. I agree. It’s amazing how a well timed compliment can really change someone’s day. 🙂

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      1. P.P.S. As a side note, I was once missing button from my favorite coat and it took me FOREVER to locate the sort of buttons I needed (big ones.) It seems that nobody carries buttons! I think that perhaps I did go to a craft store to buy the buttons eventually.

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  3. “Do you sometimes have those days when you feel ugly, stupid, useless, fat, and irrelevant?”

    If you are irrelevant it doesn’t count if you are ugly, stupid, useless and fat, so who cares? The black lady was really nice though. I frequently praise people, as I’m tired that the world is full of depressed people with low self-esteem, moreover praise always pays back well, so it can be also seen as a good investment.

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    1. “If you are irrelevant it doesn’t count if you are ugly, stupid, useless and fat, so who cares? ”

      • Wow, that’s profound. I should have thought of this. 🙂

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  4. It could be worse … you could have to fend off an uprising of the Reindeer Liberation Army with nothing more than a glass of milk and a plate full of cookies.

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      1. They’re bringing the Reindeer Revolution to the masses. 🙂

        Milk and cookies will not appease them.

        Swedish meatballs will anger them.

        Choose your method of defence wisely. 🙂

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  6. To cheer everybody up, a joke:

    There’s an anecdote about an old man coming to heaven.
    “Where were you born?” asks Peter.
    “Austria,” replies the man.
    “Where did you go to school?”
    “Czechoslovakia.”
    “Where did you get married?”
    “Hungary.”
    “Where did you raise children?”
    “The Soviet Union.”
    “Where did you die?”
    “Ukraine.”
    “Sorry, we don’t allow such globetrotters in Heaven.”
    “But – I never set foot out of Mukachevo!”

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  7. The above joke is connected to the collapse of the nation state since it was told as a response to “people should live in the country where they were born” position.

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