2024 07 31

Another day, another busted car. Chicago, Illinois. May, 2024.

While handwriting my morning pages (see: 2024 07 06) this morning, NPR played an audio recap of the month of July. What an insane time we are living in! It’s like there’s just such an endless amount of insanity that it all blends together and starts to feel normal. I don’t have any profound takeaway to follow this up with, but have been finding it helpful to ignore the outside chaos and stay focused on my own tasks and goals. Previously, I would’ve judged myself for this behavior, thinking it irresponsible to not know about the world I’m living in. I’d spend endless hours pouring over The Economist, twitter, The New Yorker, taking in as much information as possible to give myself an “informed opinion” on current events. These days, as an older, more experienced, and slightly wiser man, I know it’s not possible to understand the world and knowing things is essentially just another form of entertaining myself.

Stay safe out there, y’all!

-Clayton

PS - this reminds me of one of the greatest comedic skits of our time…