Helplessly helpless

~ Gottfried

One of the worst feelings is feeling helpless. To realize in certain situations you’re completely and totally powerless. That you gotta try and roll with the hard punches life will throw. Just last week, life took me out with a right hook. My nose is still bloodied, but like a wounded hyena I fight on. I was built for this.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That’s why I try to get my blogs, and even myself to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening. Some of my funniest blogs were written in my darkest hours. I take comfort in the fact that I’m able to bring humor and color to your life. Do me a favor and stay happy.

The only time a woman is helpless is when her nail polish is drying. Other than that, watch out. Women stay prepared. “A woman’s intuition never fails her” until it’s time to decipher the right man for herself. Suddenly all their spidey senses stop working. It’s one wild goose chase after another. Women’s intuition is a lie fed by the media.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. In that situation, the only real help you can get is from Aquaman. It’ll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and that’s where you’ll stay. Ain’t it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. And if you think that’s all, well apparently, rock bottom has a basement.

A sense of humor is not about being funny, it’s about being human. Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes. Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show off. Being too aware can lead to a deep feeling of helplessness. A little sprinkle of ignorance keeps you going.

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. This is basically what the movie series “Step Up” is about. Never get too attached to someone, because attachments lead to expectations and expectations lead to disappointments. If you don’t appoint them, they cannot disappoint you.

I just gave myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

34 thoughts on “Helplessly helpless”

  1. “Helplessly helpless’ Ah Yes Mr Gottfried

    Human Ignorance The Height of Low

    Pandemics of Human Conditions
    Not Limited to Any Nation
    Culture Religion

    Or Sports
    Arena Not
    Even the
    ‘Oldest Profession’

    Sheep Born Spoon Fed
    Whatever CuLTuRE Comes
    to Be From Birth Yet True

    Now And Then Stubborn
    Goats Do Come to Resist
    The Ignorance of the Ages Before

    True Go Figure They’ve Even Been
    Storied to Heal the Sick on Saturday’s
    Back When That Was A Thing to Get Stoned

    (Nothing to Do With Stinky Skunk Weed Hehe)

    On That Day Now Sunday to Get Some Rest

    Hehe i Didn’t Get Much Rest Getting Another
    60 Thousand Word EPiC Bi-Monthly Long Form Poem
    All Published By 5 AM in Tandem of Writing another
    One “EnDinG ALWaYS BeGiNNinG NoW” Pushing 40
    Thousand

    Words True

    i Don’t Get

    Any Days Off
    Made A Covenant
    of my Own Volition
    When i Was Gifted Free Out of Hell

    So i Sang at The Catholic Church From
    The Back Pews Where Two Unrelated
    Women Turned Around Thanking me
    For Sitting Behind them Carrying Fresh Soul Tunes

    to Lift ’em Up
    Off to Public Dance
    For Hours UPon Hours on
    End Déjà vu Literally Bringing
    Hundreds Perhaps Thousands of
    SMiLes Everywhere i Went Floating
    On Terrestrial Land in a State of Being

    in Flow Where No One Could Possibly
    Add or Subtract From the Bliss Within

    True the SMiLEs Were Just Icing Dripping

    From my Cake
    Back on the Lap
    Top At Whataburger
    Greeted By the Cashier
    With a Hug Asking Her
    Please Give my Wife One too hehe

    Most Everywhere We Go Folks Say
    We aRe Their Favorite Customers

    Key Hehe i Never Spend a Penny
    All Delegated Out to Dear Wifey

    Reading Mr Gottfried’s Blog Post a
    Bit Sleepy Yet Still Thousands More Words
    to Write After Miles and Miles of Public Dance

    Meanwhile As ‘Mike And the Mechanics’ Noted
    in ‘Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)’ Back
    in 1986 An Orange Balloon Full of Hot Air Spewed

    Out Some Vague
    Double Talk
    of A ‘Blood
    Bath’ If He
    Didn’t Get His Way

    It’s Starting to Smell a Bit
    Like Rome Before A Fall

    Yet This Is What Happens
    When Most Favored Nations
    Fall Asleep And No Longer Appreciate
    What Other Humans Spend a Decade
    of Sacrifice Just to Have An Opportunity

    For Freedom
    Where They
    No Longer
    Have to
    Live in a Country
    Where They Are “Helplessly helpless”

    Karma Is An Interesting Beast as ‘Dark
    Horses’ Often Predict The Future By What
    Has Come
    Before The

    Human

    Conditions

    Yep Hopeful
    And Hopelessly
    Helpless in So Many
    Ways of The Big I oF iGNoRaNCE

    ‘Eve Pass the Popcorn’ For Now At Least LoVE iN Peace
    Just Watching
    The Big Top Circus From ‘The Garden’ With SMiLes..:)

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      1. “Ignorance is measured bliss”

        Excellent Observation Mr Gottfried
        True Ignore aS A VErb Will Surely

        Save A Soul For Real

        i’m a Pond Stone me
        All Ya Like i Return to Calm

        Yet of Course This is a ‘First
        World Privilege’ Those Stones
        And Ponds in Other Parts of the

        World Are Far More Literal Than Metaphor

        Dropping From
        The Skies Death
        And Destruction
        The Child Cries and
        Literally Starves to Death

        Meanwhile Over Here in TrumpWorld
        The Folly oF iGNoRaNCE May Lead to

        Third World
        Conditions
        Where Stones
        And Ponds are Real

        True A Nation’s Ignorance
        May Lead to Down Fall my

        Ability to Ignore Ignorance

        Allows me to Float

        All around IT in
        Effortless Wu Wei Ease

        A Dance And Song Free It is For Now

        At Least All The Stones Making Smaller to
        Bigger Ripples Yet A Pond i Am Returning to Calm

        Other Than That Oh Dear Lord With So Many First
        World Distractions and Instant Gratifications The Ability

        to Ignore all of That And Actually Focus in Flow on One Task
        in Pursuit of Excellence is the Difference Tween Michelangelo’s
        Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Sitting at a Bus Stop Stuck in a Game

        of Candy Crush With No ‘Cool Story Bro’ to Tale Your Blogger Pal

        iN
        Nigeria

        Yet the Bottom Lines are When Animals Lose Their Ability to
        Scan the Horizon For Predators While Focusing on Prey

        Those Dopamine Hits From Texting While Driving

        Will Miss The Light
        of the Train in the

        Tunnel

        That is No
        Metaphor
        Either and the Real Thing

        True Language is So Un-limiting
        One Word Like Ignorance Will Bring
        Unlimited Others to the ‘Depth of The Story’..:)

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          1. “Liberating”

            Ah Yes on This
            ‘Palm Sunday Weekend’

            It’s Like Riding into Town
            on A Donkey Not Really

            Worrying About
            What Pre-Made
            Box
            on
            the
            Cultural
            Hierarchy
            Bottom to
            Top Check-List

            Ya Check-Off True

            WHere Ya Understand
            While Equality With the
            Whole of God Is Not What
            Ya Recognize It is Enough to
            Be Part of the Whole And Spread
            That Good News to Everyone Else
            True Without Regard to Categories like
            Gentile Jew Servant Free Woman And
            Or Man And Check-list Stuff Like that Too

            Gaining Wings to Dance Free With the Wind
            At the Beach or Desert Hehe Whatever it Takes

            However

            Wherever

            to Become
            The Wind
            That Wears
            No Illusions
            of Human Culture
            Separating Us from
            The Wind Free of All that is
            Ours All and Different To Dance Sing Free…

            Yet On the Other Hand(S) Each and Every Person Now
            May Never Fully Understand And Do the ‘Message From
            A Messenger’ or Find it Free Within to Do on Their Own

            Sort of Like
            A Skeleton
            A Visage of
            Darkness in
            A Cloaked Cape
            Tapping Their Bony Finger
            Forever Now Turning
            the Hour Glass over
            And Over Again Not

            Realizing There is
            Still as Much Sand
            in the Hour Glass Overall

            And Basically Other Than LoVE iN
            Peace Time Distance Space and A

            Matter of
            Things was
            All An Illusion
            Only Separating Us From LoVE iN Peace

            As Dance And Song Becomes

            SPiRiT Wind Free…

            So Naked Enough
            Whole Complete
            God Yes Liberating
            Indeed With SMiLes Mr Gottfried

            Yes The Meek The Wind Continues to Inherit
            The All In All of Existing SPiRiT ThiS WaY Within..:)

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          7. SMiles Mr Gottfried
            Not Unlike Socrates
            i ‘KNoW’ “No Thing’

            The “DAiMoNioN”
            Within ‘knows’
            99.5 Percent
            More As
            Science
            Currently Shows
            Too Just Another
            Greek Inspired
            Metaphor For
            “Holy SPiRiT”
            Subconscious
            Much Greater
            “God Mind”
            RiSinG To
            Surface iN
            Human iMaGiNaTioN
            EXPReSSinG Greater
            Stellar Human CREaTViTY

            iMPLiCiTLY
            Within For
            Others To
            Attempt
            To Grasp
            In Resulting Art
            With SMiLeS AGAiN

            Hehe This iS HoW
            i Come To KNoW

            No Thing
            WiTHiN heHe🙏🙌

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  4. We probably don’t talk about the basement so much. Rock bottom is a safe place to prepare for the basement.. But in the end when I become the man I always know I will be and I tell someone “it wasn’t easy”, and I notice a little doubt in their reaction, we’ll end up throwing punches. For peace sake.😌🙌👌

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