Taking a Break

~ Gottfried

The devil works hard but Banter Republic works harder. Every Monday I’m here doing my best to add some color to your miserable little life. And for what? Under 200 comments? This isn’t why Rosa Parks sat on the bus. Martin Luther and the brothers marched so that one day a little girl in India will read my jokes and share them with her confused parents.

Sometimes when we take a break, we find that solutions then present themselves. Stop calling them for a bit and maybe you don’t have to argue every day anymore. I had a girlfriend once, and then we broke up. Our break-up was due to religious differences. She thought she was God, I didn’t.

I need a break from my own thoughts. The other day I was having an internal debate with myself on who I’d save if there was a fire; the baby or the wife. An argument for the baby, it’s sweet and makes googly eyes at me. The downside is that it’s not potty-trained. As for the wife, she talks me to death but her meals are great. So I choose the wife. We can always make another one.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug with for a few minutes. It works for most devices, except for a life support machine. Actually, the life support still worked after. Unfortunately, we lost grandpa to the experiment. I won’t miss him much, he wasn’t great at giving advice.

Relax. Nothing is under control. You’re spinning in a spherical ball lost in orbit, pretending to be in control is borderline foolishness. If you’re burnt out and struggling, you don’t need more productivity. NOPE. What you really need is a break. Leave the kids with your parents and disappear for a few years. Find yourself.

I’m taking a break from social media so that I can focus on being uninformed. Facebook back in the day was a place where two bored people could fall in love and break up without ever seeing each other. I need more people to go outside and touch grass. All this land mass and you choose to stay indoors? Pathetic

How tired? There are two types of tired. One that requires rest, and one that requires peace. One is physical and the other is mental. And a third hardly spoken about, that requires death. So a combination of the two? Hence, “Rest in Peace.”

When someone asks me, “What is wrong?” I simply reply with “I’m just tired.” And they agree; they say to go take a nap. But you see, this exhaustion is not something simply resolved by sleeping. I cannot simply shut my eyes and wake up okay. I need a break from my brain, my heart, my life. I just need to go away for a little while. No, I’m not suicidal.

Don’t call me!

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266 thoughts on “Taking a Break”

  1. Are we counting comments now? You are trying to depress me. I woke up today thinking, oh no, I don’t want to. I may have said it out loud, I can’t tell anymore. I have been found talking to groceries on the shelf in stores and had an old lady say, “Pardon?”. I am tall. I never saw her in my blind spot.
    When I drive cars hoot. I don’t know what I am doing that requires a hoot. My dad had one eye that worked badly. He said, “They also have brakes.” So he drove through red lights without a care in the world. Maybe he was just good at pretending he didn’t care if we got wiped out on any given Tuesday. Or, as we decided, God cared too much for this man to let him die in the traffic, before his time was up.
    I have angels and I always quote dad when they hoot. “A miss is as good as a mile.”I am surprisingly like my dad. It’s surprising because he adopted me.
    I have just put the TV off. I am sick to death of people shooting and stabbing and crashing and betraying each other.
    I may have an afternoon nap. I think this sunny Monday may be blue, but just like the blue moon, there is nothing blue about it. It rained all weekend, it’s cold, and the sunny bit is pure fiction. It’s cold enough for a nap.
    Thanks for working so hard for us. This day would have gone down differently, but you showed up. Yay!
    Well, almost a yay, but you had to mention counting comments. I have been tardy of late. I shall endeavor to quote more, now I know they count.
    I usually chastise myself. You don’t have to quote. It’s not a commandment. Just like and smile. This is a can of worms, Lad, and you just opened it. Not good. Not good
    That’s the long version of, thanks for making my day that was crumbling in the creases.
    Love and Light.

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    1. I love love reading your comments. My uncle was a dare devil until old age caught up with him. He’s a living testimony that you can die more than mine times and still be alive.

      I exaggerated the comments bit a little so don’t cry.

      Thank you for sharing your very eventful moments with me. I will forever cherish them. Big love ❤️

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  7. Leave me alone brooo🤣🤣🤣🤣😭 what’s this shit you wrote😅.
    “Our break up was due to religious problems. She thought she was God,you didn’t 💀💀

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