Story of the Week, Bad Story Snippet, #1
July 28, 2009
I’ve always had the urge to bend the rules! I’m the kind of person that runs with scissors. I’ve been known to laugh outloud inappropriately at a stuffy tennis match and I even cut that tag off my mattress. You know the one that says, ‘By Penalty of Law, Do Not Remove!’
Some years ago, a young client from England said to me, “Thanks for taking my problems and spinning them on their heads.” I loved that. That’s what I’m good at, spinning a new light on things.
In my creative work, I’ve always had the urge to not make everything so neat, perfect or pretty. In my creativity workshops, I would hand the group a list of rules and the last one said, “Be willing to bend, alter, or totally toss these rules.” In other words, in the creative domain, leave the rules behind!
I always wanted to do a workshop called, “Bad Creativity”, where you purposefully try to create your worst work! How liberating and fun that would be. I can imagine us rolling with laughter. So in honor of the ‘bad’ creativity inside of all of us, I’ve created a series called, “Bad Story Snippets.” I had alot of fun writing them. Feel free to add your own bad creativity to them if you want.
And by the way, go cut that tag off your mattress, right now ok?
So here is the first in the Bad Story Snippet Series, please enjoy!
Misery Hates Company
“How to Get Rid of those Sickeningly Sweet, Know-it-all Friends Who are Trying to Make You Happy”
Ok, admit it, when you’re feeling miserable the last thing you want is someone trying to pull you out of it with their sickeningly sweet do-gooder spiritualisms. That’s because misery doesn’t want company, it wants a victim and you are it. Misery loves to wallow in the mud, lash out in senseless anger and blame everyone and anyone for your problems. Let’s face it misery likes itself just the way it is. It is not open to being prodded or jabbed by people who think you should be other than terribly unhappy. What is so awful about being miserable anyway? It’s just so darned annoying that people can’t accept you miserably, just the way you are.
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