Intent: More Important Than Action

As clinical depression pulls down, I can usually turn its energy back on itself and go forward; occasionally not. Recently I was bogging around near bottom and asked John to rent me a movie. Something to distract me a little while I was waiting it out. He was so happy to DO SOMETHING to help and brought home a story about several people whose lives converged while they waited out 28 days (and here’s the jewel of the story) before the earth is completely OBLITERATED by a meteor!!! I was surprised.
I was already at that ‘waiting for the Earth to end’ place! Then I saw where John’s mind had been!!! Here’s John’s thinking scenario:” Nancy needs help”, “Oh boy! Oh boy! She knows how I can help”, “Get a movie, get a movie”, “I need to find a very good movie!”, “She likes stories about people and you can’t get better than meteors. This is perfect! This has everything!”
John was so gleeful, and then he hit a stupor of a wall, when I wasn’t. I’m glad he doesn’t understand depression and the entire situation was so funny I watched that handful of pathetic people who then pathetically waited for the end, and who’d never discovered an eternal truth in their entire lives, including the last 28 days of it, and when the movie was over I went to bed.
I practice finding good surprises; as a result some of the “not good” ones are bizarrely funny.  nancymauerman.com

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