Flannel Quarantine Diaries: Day 11

Karma is a Bus that I'm Driving

#COVID19 Social (Emotional) Distancing Log Day 03262020

“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” -- LR Knost.

I was video chatting with a friend today and we were talking about giving people compliments, particularly your partner/spouse. I said that I was pretty terrible at giving compliments because I would think my partner already knew they were beautiful, hot, sexy, etc… I mean, I wouldn't be with them if they were hideous. Am I right or am I right? Seriously, I don't just pick my girlfriends just based off of looks. I do think that real beauty and sexiness is from the inside out. I think kindness and compassion is really hot and a great sense of humor can makes someone really sexy. Additionally, you can be incredibly stunning on the outside, but if you are mean and cruel that can make you really hideous to me.

Compliments. I'm incredibly blunt, and sometimes more honest than I need to be. And, I really don't like to use tired lines. I'm all about originality. It also doesn't seem to come off genuine.

Me: you look good.

Person: No, I don't, Vangie. I don't even have any make up on.

Me: At least you don't look like shit.

Person: Another Vangie compliment.

Me: You should have just said, thank you.

End scene.

I'm totally putting myself out there for your judgement. So, my friend was trying to help me be better with giving compliments.

Friend: Do these pants make my butt look big?

Me: Blame it on the pants.

Friend: Blame it on the pants? Hahahaha ha

Me: No.

It's been kind of a funky day. It was nice to laugh on video chat with a friend. To just talk about whatever. From really mundane daily goings ons or how worried we are about jobs and finances. It's a brave new world out there, and we have now topped China with the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and we are past Italy's numbers. We have a president that seems to care more about the stock market than 1-2% of our population. They just happen to not be the right 1-2% that our government usually bends over backwards for. People's lives are on the line and our President wants to play Russian Roulette with our most vulnerable population.

This may go longer than we anticipate. I hope everyone is using this time of isolation for some deep spiritual reflection and healing. Cause, I think as a nation we are getting back some wicked karma. Just sayin'

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