1.09.2026

Happiness

 


I was looking at inspiration quotes and saw this one.

I know I haven't been happy and I've been trying to find my vibe, my groove to shift that. It's hard! 

Me being me, I have to search and analyze and see if something like X, Y or Z works and if not try something else. And sometimes a small thing will work for a short time and I think I'm unto something but then a big fat NOPE. 

The stress of the holidays didn't help. The never ending stress at the job, will I or won't I get laid off, is still staring at me. 

And then when you have an epiphany, and you're like "oh...oh damn" and you hate that epiphany because of what it means and you want to be in a different timeline or multi-verse. But then you don't feel as numb. You aren't as angry or annoyed because you realize at least one small part of your own down-self issue of what's causing stupid unhappiness is in yourself. 

I don't know even half of what I am feeling. I know some pieces. I feel like I have this trail of bread crumbs I need to follow for a bit and see where it leads. 

It's just fucking hard. 

Changing how you view yourself, how to set boundaries, how to have inner peace and then maybe outer peace, is really fucking difficult. Changing - and I have never been scared of changes - is work.

Right now, I just want my time. I just want me. I don't want or need much other than that. I need time to focus and breathe and exist without anyone but me. That is so beyond hard it's wild.

12.18.2025

Complacency will be the death of us

 Complacency will be the death of us

complacency

noun

com·​pla·​cen·​cy kəm-ˈplā-sᵊn(t)-sē 
pluralcomplacencies
Synonyms of complacency
1
a calm sense of well-being and security the quality or state of being satisfied
especially satisfaction or self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
When it comes to safety, complacency can be dangerous.
… if he avoids the complacency that can accompany quick riches and celebrity—he could ripen into a world-class performer.Larry Dorman
2
an instance of usually unaware or uninformed self-satisfaction
And I suggest that there's a complacency there that comes from success.Alan Shepardquoted in Yankee

From the word: Complacent

complacent

adjective

com·​pla·​cent kəm-ˈplā-sᵊnt 
Synonyms of complacent
1
a
marked by satisfaction with the status quo especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies marked by complacency
The American people, so complacent up to then, suddenly buzzed with wild rumors.Evan Thomas
b
self-satisfied
complacent smile
… it is perhaps the most complacent, satisfied, petit bourgeois nation in Europe, if not on earth.Robert D. Kaplan
2
unconcerned
False alarms, or warnings where no tornado follows, can make people complacent.Melissa Gaskill
3
complaisant sense 1
complacent flattery
complacently adverb