An Alligator, Ballerina...Dancing in the Mud...
It seems to me that I posted a few days ago, but it's been over a week...!?!?!?
Where the hell has all that time gone?
Looking back, I really can't account for having accomplished much over the course of eight days or so; I haven't even done my dirty laundry...it's still sitting in a pile on the floor.
I strategically built that pile of laundry on a path I could not step around to get past (in order to encourage myself to launder the rags) ...I have to step over it, but I've gotten quite used to it being there...
The little hill of clothing has grown to the point where I have to take a higher, and wider step in order to clear it. Soon...I'll need to take a running jump in order to reach the other side :>)
At least that'll help keep me in shape since I've been slacking off going to the gym.
Which...now that I think about it...I've been slacking off on doing a lot of things...or rather NOT doing a lot of things...
Maybe I'm suffering from a kind of stealth depression of sorts??? I don't feel depressed...Is there such a thing as 'Stealth Depression Disorder'? If not...maybe there should be, because I think a lot of people are suffering from it.
Have you noticed how many people are walking around lately with a gloomy or angry look on their faces? How about all those negative or low key posts that people are making here on Steemit as well...???
I think there's something going around...like a virus that attacks that happy section of the human brain; there's a lot of unhappy people walking and riding along these streets lately. Even my most friendly neighbor seems a tad bit down...I said good morning to him today, and he responded with
"I don't know...I haven't noticed"
He said it in such a grouchy tone as well...
Of course I responded with, "Ed...That wasn't a question...It was a greeting" Whereupon he picked up a stone and hurled it at an alligator in a tutu dancing in the mud...
Not really...I just made that alligator part up to see who was really reading this post.
Anyway…
Here's something cute...
I once dated a woman who, as a child, told her mother that she wanted to be a 'Ballerina Alligator dancing in the mud' when she grows up...
It was in response to her mother telling her that she could be anything she wanted to be when she grew up...
In my mind...I could see my sweet friend, as that young girl many years ago in the presence of her mother...I could see the tender, loving smile upon her mother's face that must have been followed by a sharing of happy chuckling between them...
My friends little story, when it comes to mind these long years later, always reminds me of how much I loved her...and some of the many reasons why…
Her story gives me pause; makes me wonder about all those little boys and girls with hopes and dreams of a child, now grown...being who they are, and doing what they do...
I wonder how many actually became what they dreamed of becoming as a child...??? I wonder how many of us are happy whether we realized that dream or not...
Catherine never became an alligator in a tutu...but one day...on a stroll through the woods, it began to rain...
Then, it poured down upon us as we ran till realizing how futile running towards no shelter was, and...
It was then that she began dancing happily in the mud…
So...I...
simply...
joined her.
Ciao, my friends...I'm outta here.
Another Post by @AngryMan on Steemit, August 2, 2019
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Hmm, with such a large pile of dirty rags, you must either have quite the extensive wardrobe or, you're now walking around naked.
Might I also express some small disappointment at the conclusion of your tale? With all the ellipses building such tension, I expected at least that you'd rip open your rucksack and produce a tutu!
Ha...BOTH…Over the years, whenever I'd visit my son, he would give me a bunch of clothes and footwear that he'd grown tired of after wearing them once or twice :>) He tries his best to keep me from prancing around town naked, which is my preference.
Oh you naughty girl...
Great read an interesting post today 😀
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Thank you @j85063 I'm happy that you enjoyed it.
Man that was a really cool story! Alligator in a tutu in the mud, definitely different for sure. Hey appreciate the story. As far as being depressed ? Who knows? The VA headshrinkers tell me I am bi-polar. I disagree.
I am just damn moody!
Hope your weekend is going well. You may want to get on that laundry though. Your socks might jump up and chase you around the house!
Yes...Catherine was quite a unique young lady...she was an art student with a very creative mind.
I once had a session with a VA shrink who had me sit and listen to her problems for a couple of hours... then offered me a job as 'counselor' in their Out-Reach Center :>)
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