After lying in my bed reading about all of the horrible things going on in other parts of the world right now, I couldn't help but think of how desensitized to them I, and those around me, have become. I continue to think about how we are all lucky to be able to turn off atrocity with the click of a finger on our phone or TV while those in Brussels and many other areas of the world are living in unending fear. Most of the time we hear of hateful acts occuring far, far away and by the end of the day, are back to complaining about all of the small, day to day problems that consume our focus. Desensitization will never let us understand the level of fear that others are forced to live with, but a realization of how comically petty our troubles are can remind us that we are only living in a small part of the world and that our anger and distress could be aimed at something much bigger.
Hopefully you get a laugh or a smile out of some of these day to day problems we Denisonians commonly come across, but also be aware that we truly are privileged.
#firstworldprobs...
1. "I lost my swipe at the sunnies, and no one has responded to my Facebook post about it yet!"
2. "There was no fruit in Curtis today."
3. "I have a car but I have to walk so far to get to it that I sometimes don't even know if it's worth it."
4. "I haven't seen President Weinberg in a while. He is just too nice."
5. "I heard they have a new smoothie place at Mitchell but that means I have to go all the way down there."
6. "I'm so stressed about Friday. I don't know if I should go to Taco Dans, the free concert, the dance party, the movie showing, the sunnies, or all five."
7. "It was raining, and safe rides said no to driving me to get food."
8. "We don't have insomnia cookies."
10. "The weather is so bipolar. I was wearing shorts yesterday, and now I need my Patagonia; it's too hard to predict."
11. "I hate meatless Mondays."
12. "The Bandersnatch app doesn't work."
13. "YikYak is disgusting." (after spending 10 minutes scrolling through intensely)
14. "They don't have guac anymore at the Catalina in Slayter, and it's depressing." (This was a personal quote. I admit.)
15. "I have more emails from Cookie than friends right now."
16. "I would go to Whistler, but Mucinex."
17. "Greaves."
