Please do keep us updated on the Unnamed Game. Raising a child who thinks in terms of creating a game rather than just playing one is a gorgeous and profound accomplishment.
And thank you for the reminder to try to make space for the positive in all of this. I feel like being happy is somehow normalizing, which I don't want to -- someone asks me how I am and even if in that moment, I'm actually okay, I don't want to say it because it implies that everything is fine.... just fine... when it's self evidently very much not. But I also don't want to allow the political situation to take away my happiness -- they're already going to take away enough without getting that. I'm not sure how to navigate all of that, but your piece (and the Unnamed Game) remind me to keep trying.
Michael is a creative person, which is one of my favorite of his qualities. One that I try to encourage and cultivate.
I think more than happiness, which is paltry and fickle, a better thing to normalize would be contentment. We don't need to be okay with everything in the whole world, but we can be fine with our world. That's what resilience is, isn't it? When we can be content with our world even when not everything in it isn't perfect. For me, work has been hard over the past month, but my life doesn't rest on a one-legged stool. It's fine to be okay, but not necessarily happy.
Please do keep us updated on the Unnamed Game. Raising a child who thinks in terms of creating a game rather than just playing one is a gorgeous and profound accomplishment.
And thank you for the reminder to try to make space for the positive in all of this. I feel like being happy is somehow normalizing, which I don't want to -- someone asks me how I am and even if in that moment, I'm actually okay, I don't want to say it because it implies that everything is fine.... just fine... when it's self evidently very much not. But I also don't want to allow the political situation to take away my happiness -- they're already going to take away enough without getting that. I'm not sure how to navigate all of that, but your piece (and the Unnamed Game) remind me to keep trying.
Michael is a creative person, which is one of my favorite of his qualities. One that I try to encourage and cultivate.
I think more than happiness, which is paltry and fickle, a better thing to normalize would be contentment. We don't need to be okay with everything in the whole world, but we can be fine with our world. That's what resilience is, isn't it? When we can be content with our world even when not everything in it isn't perfect. For me, work has been hard over the past month, but my life doesn't rest on a one-legged stool. It's fine to be okay, but not necessarily happy.