Recently someone I know signed me up for an email list designed to be inspiring, I guess.
It's a service called "The Universe".
It sends you random emails at random times, claiming to be from "the universe", and they are designed to be encouraging and to give you messages that I think they intended to for you to contemplate in some sort of positive and uplifting way.
I wonder if "the universe" realizes just how hurtful it can be sometimes.
The last one I got looked like this.
In case you didn't know, you couldn't tell, or you haven't heard...If you're reading this right now on a phone or computer, Corky, you're rich.
If you have somewhere to go today, you're connected.
And if there is anyone, anywhere, who for any reason knows where you are at this moment, you’re loved.
Dang, you just keep acing time and space.
Big time,
The Universe
Well, I do have a phone, and a computer, so there's that.
But I don't have anywhere to go today.
Or any day really. I honestly do not. I live alone, I have no significant remaining family. I live in a remote, rural area and I do not have any local friends or acquaintances outside of a couple of business relationships around the small town I inhabit. I'm divorced, my child is grown and due to circumstances over time, she and I are not really in touch, and only see each other once a year or even less, and then usually only for a few hours at best.
So the second part, anyone, anywhere, who knows where I am?
Well maybe one person does, and that's a person who broke my heart and suggesting that at this moment I am loved because they know where I am? Is just as far from the truth as it can possibly be.
I know this kind of post is likely to solicit all sorts of "but we love you!" comments because that's what people do.
But honestly, as much as I love all of my friends on the blockchain here, the truth is, if I left, most of those friendships would flicker and fade away as such things do, like former co-workers or school mates or neighbors long ago left behind by time, distance and lost connection or the discontinuation of the shared experiences that brought you together in the first place.
So, yeah, universe, you can suck it today.
You dissed my love before I even had a chance to give it- but you're getting it anyway! So pbbbt.
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Hey I know we just met and this is crazy, but call me, maybe. <3
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Hahaha! That was such a priceless comment.
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Listen up Corky, you've got a friend in me.
Yeah, it's true that people lose touch with one another when they don't have shared experiences, but I'm not planning on going anywhere and you aren't either so we're stuck together in our glorious, dysfunctional MSP family.
I'm always here and I have a great ear.
<3
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Aw @isaria you're sweet. That's a very nice thing of you to say. Thank you. <3
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You're welcome, I mean it. <3
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I love how your post ends. Steem and cryptocurrencies will all get us much closer to one another.
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I'm honored you took the time to read my little poor-me post. I see why you liked the last paragraph, but I also dislike the phenomena myself.
I am sure steem and the eco-system around it and the crypto world can enable and facilitate closing the gaps across the globe that nations and imperialism and feudal cabals have thrust upon us, but I also see the potential and actually in practice here on the chain, see how it can also rip us apart at the individual level.
Like anything, it's not black and white, there are infinite shades of gray.
Never before in history has the world been globally connected at the grass roots level, coupled with the power to destroy the entire world at the push of a few buttons. The cryptos play a part of this GRAND Transformation. It's incredibly volatile or incredibly empowering. It's the age of instant everything from communications and connectivity to destruction. That's a dangerous and precarious place to be.
It is true of me and one girl in our relationship. It's is true of nations on our big dirty rock's surface.
Proceed with an open heart and extreme caution.
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If you choose to live alone in the mountains and aren't lonely then who cares? You're doing what you want But if you don't like this situation that's a different story. And no one can change that except you. You seem like a decent person so I'd be surprised if you couldn't make real life friends if that's what you desire. Don't focus on the past and what's gone. Look to the future and what could be.
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Look to the future and what could be.
Yeah, that's kind of the point. For 49 years that is JUST what I've done, and every single time I get close to something I want, it goes away or dies. That is WHY I finally came up here to die over the next 40 years.
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Ahh, please don't give up! That makes me sad.
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The me you know gave up almost 15 years ago. Thought maybe I had a reason to snap out of it recently, but yeah, nah... So the me you know won't change. Nothing new to see here, don't be sad.
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I will not blow smoke up your ass!
Life can be a total bitch!
I hear you on the "but we love you!" comments because that's what people do.
I have so called close friends that I have not seen or herd from in over a yr!
I have not contacted anyone from Fakebook in over 3months. I guess I now know which one will be at my funeral ...
Understand the thought and ?fears of dying and having no one at funeral...
I can relate to you, and feel a resonance w/ your problems.
You are not alone! I know these are just words on a screen!
I hope somewhere you find a smile and something good in this day!please reach out to me or one of your many Steemian, or MSP family if you need to talk.
That means DM me for a phone number if you need too!
w/ that I gonna say suck it up butter cup! ;-) and spit it back at the universe!
Namaste!
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Namaste'
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One day you will get a knock and it will be me with a sixpack we will chat and then get drunk and piss each other off and then I too will be gone
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Nice! How to win friends and influence people stickchumpion. ☺
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I aim to please
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Then why is there piss all over the toilet seat?
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Sometimes the Universe does need to suck it. I have nowhere to be today and the only people who would really care if I disappeared would be my lovely wife and my two dogs.
So yes, Universe, go suck it!
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A lovely wife makes you richer than the most of the world. But hey, I got two dogs, that have just cost me almost $3000 in medical bills over the past month for heartworm and parasite treatments. So there's that.
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You coming to steemfest buddy?
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No. I cant afford it and the only passport I ever had expired like 15 or 20 years ago. Not only that, getting a passport is difficult for me due to some legal things that have happened in my life in the past. So no I won't be coming but I sure wish I could because there are certain people like you I would truly love to meet.
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So ill never meet you?:P well thats a shame. I wonder what those legal things are...bet you dont want to talk about them.
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Never say never.
I had a weed bust man, getting a passport probably isn't that bad, but will take extra time, the real problem is some countries have many extra hurdles if you have a misdemeanor or worse crime on your record. Like Canada, where I recently wanted to visit but it was such a pain in the ass, I didn't bother.
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Oh yea the good old land of free fucking you up for weed. Was it at least tons?:D Were you at least giving it for free?:P I would imagine that Canada wouldn’t care about weed since its legal there, therefor not a crime from their perspective.
But you’re right never say never:)
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Haha, I actually got the charges for a fairly large bust dismissed in 2009.
The one messing me up for entry into canada is for a fricking pipe. :(
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In Prague no1 really cares...few days ago an awesome event happened actually...there is a square where are light lit till morning and where is a huge open space (perfect for late night frisbee). We had joint rolled and wanted to smoke it before throwing...when we arrived we realized that there is a totally wasted guy sitting on the ground in the corner of the square and above him 2 policemen...the guys was sitting there in total chill mode smoking his cigar. We decided to smoke our joint there in the middle of the square watching the whole event. When finished we started throwing and in like 30 minutes another police car arrived (as we were told those were the superiors of the first couple…the chilling guy o the ground was obviously too much to handle). We didn’t care still and continued throwing, managing to hit the police car...Well then we had to stop:(:D
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hahah it used to be like that here. Not in the last 15 years or so though.
I can see the whole scene above. Totally cool.
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No, it's really not. But hey, spammers gonna spam.
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They always do...
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absolute spam, spams absolutely.
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