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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Banter Republic 
What doesn’t kill you will leave you with lots of scars. 😂😂
I coerced my psychiatrist into prescribing sedatives for me the other time, sadly she didn’t allow me get a refill. I understand the way you feel, and you should talk to someone if you ever need to.
Hugs. ):
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The battle scars remind you of your conquests.
I can’t even sleep unless it’s night time. And when I sleep, I still have to face my dreams.
I can’t win
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I call those nightmares, not dreams. And winning has never been an option. 😂😂😂 You’ll survive.
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My teeth have fallen out countless times in my dreams. It’s starting to feel real 😭
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Haha. You’re old, Leibniz.
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Respect me!
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I enjoyed that!
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Thanks!
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If I ever got 200 comments, I’d think my computer was broken.
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hahaha, I feel you!
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oh that inner monologue can come up with myriad of different monologues 🙆♀️ dearest…..❤️
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The first monologue is like a trigger, the rest will follow 😅
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Go Outside and Touch Grass should be on a t-shirt….or bumper sticker. Or a movement motto….I’m still wondering who Squirrel is above…I definitely need to take a nap now
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Haha, the squirrel needs to go outside and touch grass
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Comment 185. You’re welcome 😉
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Baby steps dear friend 🤭
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Thank God comments are not calls hahaha. Take a good break!
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Haha, if they were calls I’d actually be sick
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HAHAHA I bet you will. You’ll hear our laughs even when you sleep XDD
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Haha, 😂😂😂
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Until then! 👊😊Oh, better yet. I might be reading this late 😂 so you could be back already. Either way, breaks a more than a necessity at this point especially with the over stimulation from all these apps.
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Who knows? Am I back? Did I take a break? Nobody knows
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I sometimes wonder whether it is possible to entirely take that break we all deserve before it breaks us.
Most breaks birth new storms but then, glad the rest brings the calmness we desire even though it’s only for a moment.
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For some a break is almost unthinkable.
You’re right about it birthing a new storm. The grind only stops when you’re dead
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I decided to take some rest today to get away from the chaos all around me but what followed me to my sleep was a dream. On waking up, I felt more tired than how I was before 😭
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Haha, it’s crazy that you can get tired from dreaming too much 😅
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My dear it’s another activity. The body rests, the mind travels to the spiritual realm. It’s always great when I get revelations but when it’s a bad dream I get so tired.
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Tell me about the revelations
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True but then, how about the spirits/ghosts that come back to haunt us. Does it mean they didn’t really accept the death verdict? Or maybe they never wanted to rest or get a break from the things they used to know🤦
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Ghosts aren’t bad people. They’re just hungry and they can’t eat. So they stay hungry.
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I pray they keep to their side and not disturb my moments
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Fairs
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