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How to Have a Bad Day Step 25: Have Double Standards
Step twenty-five: keep a double standard. Culture insists it is only physical, so why does a casual fling end up feeling like a funeral?
How to Have a Bad Day Step 26: Play the Victim
Step twenty-six: play the victim. Carry a laminated victim card into every conversation, and nothing is ever yours to own or to fix.
How to Have a Bad Day Step 27: Love Yourself
Step twenty-seven: love yourself. The irony is that we are not short on self-love, we are drowning in it, and still looking outward for the problem.
How to Have a Bad Day Step 28: Don't Think too Hard
Step twenty-eight: do not think too hard. The information is not just out there, it is hunting you down, and giving up on truth feels like relief.
How to Have a Bad Day Step 29: Give Up
Step twenty-nine: give up. Hollywood taught us every conflict resolves in ninety minutes. Jesus said plainly that we would have trouble, and then said why.
How to Have a Bad Day Step 30: Embrace Depression
Half of Canadians will face mental illness by forty. This is the longest post in the series and the most honest one, including my own turn with it.
How to Have a Bad Day Step 31: Commit to Writing 31 Blogs in One Month
The last step in the series, and the most self-inflicted. What thirty-one days of writing on purpose taught me about the scrolling that started it.