Craving a Fix
There’s different types of fixes we crave as we move along. Intellectual, satisfactory, consumption, sedate, mindless, humour, validation, giving, taking, malice, valour - the list goes on.
There’s ways to get these with minimal effort if we can only view them that way.
For Example:
Intellectual Fix: No one at work will have a meaningful conversation with you? Read a blog that pushes that striatum. Takes 2 mins, no excuses.
Mindless Fix: Aimlessly walking through lanes on the street, visiting a section of your house you don’t frequent, a floor in your workplace you don’t have anything to do at or a mindless sitcom you’ve watched many times over. Get that fix.
Olfactory Fix: Walk past a waft of bakeries and flowers on your way to lunch. Makes skipping dessert or caffeine for the day easier. If you’re trying, that is.
Valour Fix: Walking down a hot street? Shade a lesser-abled from the sun with an umbrella or yourself for even a few seconds on your way by. The perception of valour need not always be shallow.
Humour Fix: Attempt to find humour in general conversation. A different language, a pun you mentally made up and enjoyed with your multiple split personalities, scrolling through pictures of funny memes, floofs or videos, depending on your thing.
Validation Fix: You’re cut a check for a reason. Stated validation is neither necessary, nor frequently possible. Do your job, that’s validation enough for your existence sometimes.
Malice Fix: They say you shouldn’t stop negative thoughts from flowing in. So don’t. Think of the worst possible scenarios, calamities and avenge your malice mentally, so that you don’t have to let it flow out. Delay an email, a task, do what it takes to get over the feeling, not stifle it.
Get your fix. Then you’ll be happy.