Life Isn’t All Unicorns and Lollipops
Life isn’t all lollipops and unicorns
Ever wake up in tears & in pain & broke & alone & feeling so awful that you begin wondering if that tiny light at the end of the tunnel is actually just an oncoming train?
Sometimes life feels impossible. That’s how i woke up today. I’m crying as I write this & my legs, feet & back are screaming from decades of service work. I’ve got another 90 minutes until I don my apron & clock in.
But I’m unstoppable and a hair or two daft probably. lol…
And the thing is, there’s soooo many wonderful, amazing, beautiful things out there to experience. I gotta keep going.
Even if I won the lottery today, though, that wouldn’t buy me more time on this earth. Oh boy do I ever have a sobering thing for you to try that I may or may not add here at some point.
I’ve been sleeping more, Eating less, which helps a lot financially..
Yet at the same time, I beat myself up for letting all these things even begin to get to me because I live like royalty compared to many people in this world. Do you even know how many people in this world have no running (nor even clean!) water, zero chance of education, children in horrific slavery situations, soldiers coming home from war with zero support for handling what no one should ever have to endure… it just goes on and on….
The only gift I have is bringing comfort, joy, love and hope to others though, and I’m pretty good at it when I don’t feel like this, and I really need that joy coursing through my veins again, so am pressing on. Well, also I made a promise to someone very special to me that I’d publish something every day for two weeks no matter what (& I’m running about 5-6 hours over the 24 hours since my last post rn).
There’s gotta be a reason I’ve survived this long., right?
I mean HE sees it, so that makes two of us. lol
And so, luckily, in looking for inspiration last night as to wth I could possibly write about, I found something randomly that knocked me out (i guess literally too, bc I fell asleep watching at like 830pm).
The greatest thing happened when I woke up today though. I woke up as described earlier & thinking omg I’m late, I suck, etc & about what sort of joyful thing I could possibly write about to inspire others, I was saved by Monty Python.
Literally.
Because as I opened up my laptop, there it was…
The teamwork & chutzpah it took in making “The Holy Grail” is something I found so damn inspiring & amazing, that I must share it with anyone who might be reading this.
I’d never known that the budget for creating that epic film was so insanely low, yet everyone teamed up, stuck it out, and let the magic of laughter & love prevail.
It’s ridiculous what they went through to bring this incredible piece of cinema to life… it’s one of the most well-known comedy classics in the world, it’s beyond epic & has brought immense joy & laughter to countless people for decades now… and they did it against all odds. It’s pretty incredible, admirable & inspirational beyond words.
I’ll include the two links here that truly made me smile. I realize there’s not much flow here now bc I just looked up at the clock & saw I only have 15 more minutes til I gotta hit the road to work & I haven’’t even showered yet. Whoops. Oh well…
I got all sidetracked looking through 25k photos for a picture to use for posting with this, and when I finally found the one I had in mind, I decided it wasn’t at all the pic that fits after all.
Ok so here are the links. I’ll add some sort of photo later tonight. Or maybe I’ll do one in crayon like I did yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFN9KAR5Og&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaZbp1dzdI