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1 [1] annie's blog 2 3 [2]annie's blog 4 5 [3]👋 Hello! [4]✍️ Guestbook [5]👊 Blog [6]🫶 Micro [7]🤌 Slash 6 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7 8 Tomorrow might feel better 9 10 A screenshot showing a scene from Broadchurch. Hardy (David Tennant) is asking 11 Miller (Olivia Colman): "How d'you do it, Miller, the whole single parent 12 thing?" Miller's back is to us. Hardy's face looks strained. A scene from 13 Broadchurch showing Miller (Olivia Colman) answering Hardy's question. Her face 14 is toward us, lit by the sun. She looks resigned and self-deprecating as she 15 says, "By constantly absorbing feelings of failure, guilt and shame." 16 17 Sometimes you just don’t get to feel good about things. 18 19 Anyway a good rule I read somewhere long ago is something like Never trust how 20 you feel about your life after 9pm. 21 22 I’ve found it helpful to expand the rule a bit. 23 24 Never trust how you feel about your entire life…. 25 26 • when you’re hungry or have eaten only crap lately. 27 28 • when you’re not getting enough sleep. 29 30 • when you’re in pain. 31 32 • when you just made a mistake. 33 34 • when something big is happening especially if it’s a bad or scary big 35 thing. 36 37 • when you’re in an argument or fresh out of one. 38 39 • when you haven’t seen the sun in 24+ hours. 40 41 • when you’ve just gotten bad news. 42 43 There are many more situations where this advice could be helpful. 44 45 When something is off, imbalanced, scary, upsetting in some part of your life, 46 the rest of your life will tilt toward that angle. Or at least will feel like 47 it does. 48 49 Remembering this helps me to not take my own feelings so seriously. 50 51 I hope today is a good day for how you feel about your life, but if it’s not, 52 tomorrow might be better. 53 54 For the record, I feel good about my life right now, this very minute. I wrote 55 part of this post a few days ago and another part of it a few years ago. I 56 survived both the years and the days. You will, too. 57 58 there is a light somewhere. 59 it may not be much light but 60 it beats the darkness. 61 be on the watch. 62 63 —Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart 64 65 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 66 April 7, 2025 67 [8] 68 Reply by email 69 [9] 70 Subscribe via RSS 71 [10] 72 Back to all blog posts 73 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 74 75 👋 [11]email | [12]micro.blog | [13]mastodon | [14]omg.lol 💃 76 77 An image with filename: WrittenByAHuman_08.png An image with filename: 78 CoffeePowered_03.png 79 80 [15]PIKA 81 82 References: 83 84 [1] https://anniemueller.com/ 85 [2] https://anniemueller.com/ 86 [3] https://annie.omg.lol/ 87 [4] https://anniemueller.com/guestbook 88 [5] https://anniemueller.com/posts 89 [6] https://annie.micro.blog/ 90 [7] https://anniemueller.com/slash 91 [8] mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Tomorrow%20might%20feel%20better 92 [9] https://anniemueller.com/posts_feed 93 [10] https://anniemueller.com/posts 94 [11] mailto:[email protected] 95 [12] https://micro.blog/Annie 96 [13] https://social.lol/@annie 97 [14] https://annie.omg.lol/ 98 [15] https://pika.page/?utm_source=pika_blog&utm_medium=pika_footer_branding