CONCLUSIONS TO JUMP TO IF YOU’RE SPRY TO TRY

Which conclusions are best to jump to? The ones closest, or the ones further away? It’s not a trick question.

Most of us are spry enough to jump for the close ones. We can land the small jumps, but it takes a leap of faith to try the big jumps, the ones further away.

How’s your faith today, dear reader? Feeling strong? If not, why not. It’s a good day to get stronger, brother.

Conclusions worth jumping to?

Get Over It Conclusions

Have you ever told someone to, “Get over it?”

Of course you have. If not, give it a shot. Look in the mirror, think of your high school girlfriend, or boyfriend, and say it, “Get over it.”

If you’re thinking, ‘I’ve been over them since high school,’ then you didn’t really have one to get over, because no one gets over the good ones.

The good ones reflect the same qualities we’ve found attractive in others. My wife likes to think she would have been a good Bulldog; I like to think she cares enough to have an opinion.

I’ve never thought of being a Lennox Lancer, or living in LA County, but I’ve started up apartments in Brooklyn and Philadelphia from turning on the gas to finding and installing a missing toilet. I think I would have managed just fine.

In a world adjusted the way I like it, there’s a sassy line that runs through my first date ever to where I am right now watching Shetland English murder mysteries about human trafficking.

Get over it if you need to, or celebrate the luck of the draw. They are not the same thing.

Moving On

What conclusion do you jump to when you hear the words, “Moving on?”

Something screwed up? Failed? Or is it opportunity? Sometimes they are the same thing.

People do move on together. It happens. Who hasn’t hitched their dreams to a star and felt the light?

Moving on together takes more work than just moving on. Anyone can move on. Bad day? Move on. Bad mood? Move on. Get a bigger place when you feel too crowded? Move on.

Care about someone’s feelings in the instance of bad day, bad mood, cramped, and the results change. Try and make a better day, a better mood, leave more room for the other person.

You don’t need to be a saint to care, but do it right and it might feel saintly.

If you don’t have anything to ‘Get Over’ you’ve come to the right place. Start by moving on from the idea that you’ve got nothing to get over.

Find someone disagreeable and say something nice.

Tell someone who has general feelings of ill will toward the world, confused and warped by trying to keep up with current events to the point they lash out senselessly, tell them that you care about them.

I can say it felt pretty damn good to default to kindness after getting told off the second time by the same person. It’s not like I forgot the first time.

If you come upon a conversation that includes hurtful words from someone you care about even a little, roll out the kindness. They may not know the difference, but you will.