Whiplash

~ Gottfried

There are no two words more harmful in the English Language than “Good Job”. Because it’s easier to walk away than to fight for what you really want; your managers job. And it’s not just because the pay is more glamorous, you can just tell you’ll be better at it. 

Everyone around you is full of interesting and talented but you’re just alive. To be fair, it’s the only metric that really matters. Next time someone’s is praying next to you and they go “we are not better than those that have died”, stop them midway and go, “but we are!”

I don’t have mood swings. I have the whole playground. Common in rear-end accidents, whiplash is a type of neck injury caused by rapid back-and-forth movement of the head and neck. I wasn’t bobbing my head to a hip hop track, you nearly ushered me into the afterlife. 

Yes, I’ve made mistakes. Life didn’t come with instructions. And if it did. I wouldn’t follow them anyway. There’s nothing more exciting than popping a can of soda, and after the first gulp your brain takes a screenshot. Experts call it brain freeze. 

Call your mom. Call your dad. If you’re lucky to have a parent alive on this planet call them. Don’t text, don’t email. Call them on the phone and talk to them. Listen to them intently. Cherish every word they say. Stay on the call for as long as they want to talk to you. 

And if they’re not in this planet, call me dad. 

© Gottfried. All rights reserved.

17 thoughts on “Whiplash”

  2. I resonate so well with the last paragraph. My best yapping moments are with my parents. I am reminded everyday that life is so fickle and time flies; so holding tight to what matters, helps create those memories that we get to cherish for a lifetime.

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  3. Oh the Beauty of Finally

    Losing Our Head Embodying

    The Rest Connecting Bottom

    To Top
    Once again
    Oh Modernity
    Of Living in Talking
    Heads of Only Text

    Mr Gottfried God Yes

    Such Poverty of Humanity
    Such A Whiplash of Human

    Potentials
    of Humanity’s
    Touch More than
    Screens Alone Hehe

    Yet True We Might
    As Well Touch that
    too As Hands Grow
    Smart Phone Brains

    Yet again Losing
    the Human Touch

    How Ironic
    Screens
    for Fingers Come..:)

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  4. A beautifully chaotic blend of humour, wisdom, vulnerability, and the harsh realities of being alive.It made me laugh, made me think, and somehow left me with a lump in my throat, especially the final line.

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  7. Truth in an ironic way ” life didn’t come with instructions and even if it did,I wouldn’t follow them because how would I know I have made a mistake and learn from it…. Ps. Just make sure it isn’t a mistake that would leave a lasting scare of regrets

    And the last paragraph, beautiful 🤩 you just don’t realize how precious every moment with them is until you experience people come and go, or move far away from them 😔

    Thank you 😊 it’s always a pleasure reading your blogs

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