Have you watched the show The Good Place on Netflix? If you haven’t, check it out. It’s funny, easy to watch and entertaining. It will definitely pass a bit of time while we all suffer with Tier Fatigue. But I also found the Good Place interesting and kind of heartbreaking. The last ever episode really played with my mind and made me question the point of existence. There have been a few interesting articles about it. But anyway, that’ s a post for a different day.
With the announcement of moving into Tier 4 on the cards, I had a thought. We are actually in the Bad Place. We are being tortured. We think we are alive and living our lives on Earth, but we are actually dead and being tortured. I mean this has to be the reality. We cannot actually be living this life, can we? The nonstop dithering on policy, the relentless uncertainty – it’s just hard on our mental health. Being told to support businesses and hospitality, being told to go work out at our gyms, go see loved ones but carefully and then having it all taken away for 4 days and then being released like rabid dogs over Christmas, then being told we now can’t do anything on Christmas, it’s difficult to bear.
I saw something on Twitter that joked that we are all in an abusive relationship with the government. It made me chuckle and then it made me sad because we are all powerless. And it’s not like we can just leave. We are stuck. Nobody wants us sad Tier 4 losers. I just refuse to believe that this is real life. Maybe what this actually is is some demented revenge of the turkeys because now everybody is just going to Deliveroo Dominos on Christmas day. Well played Turkeys. Well played.
I feel so sad for all the businesses that opened for literally 2 weeks and were looking forward to some normality before Christmas now having to close at the drop of a hat again. I feel sorry for me, because I was really looking forward to Christmas day and seeing some family, but now Christmas day will just merge into every other day of this wretched year. I feel sorry for everyone who is constantly being messed around. I guess I better re-read Pema Chodron to get some perspective on life, but for now, I’m going to mope and carry on feeling sorry for myself.
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