Today, I pretty much caved to the bad mood. I let it wash over my whole day. I was really quite a pill.
But, you know - sometimes you just have to let the bad mood in. It wasn't like I didn't have good reason. My car insurance went up. My paycheck is going down. My paycheck was late. I woke up with gum in my hair. And, some weirdo called today and I don't know if it were a prank. In case it wasn't - hey, at 29, you're probably too old to start a career in porn.
The feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye says that to deny your right to anger is to deny your humanity. I totally get the irony of a monkey claiming humanity through anger. And, just like the zen folks tell it - once I acknowledged the bad mood, it lifted. Ahhhhh, serenity.
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