Riding the Rollercoaster and Temporal Dips of Life with the Fantods

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Adventure Speculative Teens & Young Adult

It is a wild ride.

Life.

Kinda looks like an EKG test.

The same characteristics.

The same scary thrill.

The ups.

The downs.

Up

Down

Amusing sometimes.

Downright scary othertimes.

An amusement park.

Life.

Up.

Down.

Seatbelts can be a lifesaver.

Cotton candy is sticky.

The giant stuffed panda bear won with blood, sweat, and tears, still must be carried around for the reminder of the day of amusement.

Up.

Down.


Refocus.

Walk on.


Hang on for dear life.


Might as well simply admit it. And accept it. Admit and accept that is matters to you.


The bumpy ride. Of opinions, values, perceptions, needs.

I need some cotton candy?


A profoundly good question.

Box you in.

Box you out.

Pencil you in.

Pencil you out.


It’s not about. You.

It’s about me. Or her. Or him.

But.

Is it really?


Time on the roller coaster can be invigorating. Temporally speaking,

In the moment.


Did you know?

Grouchy old man syndrome is a real “thing”. A human condition. It can be diurnal, occurring every day.


Every.

Day.

Yikes.

And many of us thought PMS was a bad “thing”. A human condition. It can be diurnal, occurring every day.

Every.

Day.

Yikes.


Chaos in the Courtroom kinda stuff.

Guess it best comes down to harm reduction.

The rest is just, well,

gravy.


Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Two rights don’t make a wrong.

Fanzine Fantods include grouchiest, grumpiness, pettishness.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Autonomy is yours for the taking. If you take the time and first step to ask for it.


Then.

Hold on for the ride of your life.

Lessening the harmful consequences is not just left to the astute of us. Keeping people safe and alive comes with a whole set of rules to live by.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Butterflies in the stomach kinda ride.

Sometimes the best one can do is lead by example.

But. only the good stuff?

Without mistakes in life, how do we learn anything at all?


Profoundly good question.

When you find out the answer, will you please let me know?

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Reciprocity.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Profoundly good question.


Better question:


Which comes first, trust or respect?


Hierarchially or Reciprocal?

Profoundly good question.

When you find out the answer, please let me know.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Complex navigation is complex.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Two rights don’t make a wrong.


Best interests.

Best. Interests.

It is a macro, micro kinda “thing”.


Procrastinators beware.

That which you can do today, would you put off until tomorrow?

Harm reduction.


Judicious in mind and judicious in heart.

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Balancing becomes a 24/7 task of epic proportions. The best one can hope for is to cling to the bar? Hang with the Fantods on or at the Fanzine……on the roller coaster of life.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means for me. Because we all have periods of spending time down in the dump, down in the dumps. Why push buttons more or further? Reactions may vary.


Before you think it, “because I can” is not an acceptable answer.


Change is not a linear event. Depending on how one looks at it….. Like a roller coaster, an EKG test, or a straight, horizontal line of perfectly assumed expectations.


Variety is the spice of life.

Why not shoot for the upward spiral. Give it a whirl. Less judgment. Signs of active change are sometimes very microscopic, yet they exist as an agent for


Change.


Good change.

Meaningful change.

Long lasting change.

Real change.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Hate to do this so late in the game kinda stuff. Better late than never. Boundaries are so, so important. Empathy is a good fit when reciprocity is present. The best back and forth imaginable. Boundaries.

Harm reduction. Don’t give up. All persons have the ability to improve. When wrong.


Admit it.

Accept it.

Work within your limitations.


We are all walking, talking blobs of hope waiting to be shaped by one another. Give it a whirl!


Indulge in an air puff of cotton candy on a stick?

If you must.

Indulgences, we all got ‘em. How we choose to use them is shaped by our experiences.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


A busy brain is not a bad thing.

Exhausting.

But.

Not a bad thing.


Temporal is to the EKG flatline as bad penmanship is to life on the roller coaster. Hang on for deal life or predictability running the show.


Profoundly good question. When you know the answer, please let me know.


Deserving of honor and respect especially by reason. Hallowed and venerable even.

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Diaphanously frail?

A weak minded individual and the EKG straight line may go hand in hand with no problemo. A strong-minded individual may prove and present with provocative tendencies. When and how to know the difference?


Profoundly good question.

When you know the answer, please let me know.


Not knowing how to play the game isn’t a bad thing. Refocus with judgment or no judgments. That is a good start. And. You gotta start somewhere.


Life.


Can be a very, very long journey from point A to point B. Just getting to a point where you get the point.


What’s the point?


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Holding on so tight at the bar so as to not get thrown off balance. May as well bring along with you the team. Of tried and trued mates of long hard built reciprocal trust and respect.


Who’ve been there.


Dizzy is as dizzy does. Cannot help it? Born this way. Born that way. A swing and a miss. A whirl session of epic proportions.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Upset the apple cart and most assuredly you will be chasing them all up and down the street.


Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.


Grouchy.

Grumpy.

Petty.

Frumpy.


Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back on it, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.


Forgive yourself and others when you fall short of the “expectations.”

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.








June 29, 2023 16:30

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