Half-truth: Downward

Because this is a public blog, I’m going to throw in entries that may or may not be true, or may be partly true such as a half-truth. Gotta mix it up somehow! Proper warning will be given for entries like these - they will be labeled with the words “Half-truth” followed by the title of the post. It’s up to the reader to decide what to believe.

On to “Downward”

So you’re feeling pretty down one day, all sad and distracted. Then the next morning you get up, smile to yourself, and determine it’s going to be a good day. And for the first part, it is. You have breakfast with a new friend, chat with some other people you love, get a surprise visit in your cube, and spend lunch watching some funny episodes of a Japanese game show. You wince when the announcers narrate how a player eats dirt and gets “double fisted” at the end, and laugh when a guy crossing a twisting bridge gets shot off by a ball.

And then noon passes. As the sun wanes downwards, you follow suit. Every minute that passes drains you until you have barely enough energy to form words. What words you do get out are ill-phrased and badly taken, and later on you feel bad but it’s done and you’re just tired. You scowl because smiling takes too much effort, and around you there are ripples of reaction. Someone pulled you down, and now you’re pulling someone else, and so on it will go because that’s how the world works.

You come home and write, thinking you’ll feel better but you must not be at the bottom yet because you still feel yourself plummeting.

Then you brush your teeth in preparation for blissful unconsciousness. The minty fresh toothpaste perks you right up and you’re almost back to normal.

You thus vow to brush your teeth more often.