WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?A few years ago, my wife had a series of (slapstick) injuries in rapid succession. First, she broke her finger, then she pulled a muscle, hurt her shoulder, her foot, and a few other injuries I can't recall now, although one of them was the result of her attacking me with a bottle of Fabreeze. (You'll just have to trust me that it had nothing to do with my scent and more to do with her anger over a juvenile prank I pulled.) Anyway, in that case she kind of had it coming, karmically speaking, but in all the other ways, it was unfortunate.
One Saturday morning upon waking up, she entered the living room dramatically and I looked up from (probably) the comment I was making here to ask where she was hurting. Her eyes darted from many different parts of her body and finally, exasperated, she gestured with her hand from head to toe and cried "THE WHOLE THING!"
It was pathetic but funny, and of course I did the correct thing by having her sit down while I got her coffee. But I kept snickering throughout the day. "The whole thing!"
Since then, it's become an inside joke of ours. When something is overwhelming we never mention the word "overwhelmed;" instead, it's simply "the whole thing!"
And that's what life has been lately. Day after day, it's been the whole thing.
I thought about focusing on just one part of the thing for this diary, but then I thought, if I start listing my problems and forget one, that problem is going to feel left out and find a way to make sure I remember it next time. For the same reason that I never say "it can't get any worse," I will also not start acknowledging my problems. I'll just pop another muscle relaxer and pretend everything is right in my world.