It’s A Bad Time, It’s A Good Time

It's a good time.  It’s a bad time.  Outside, sad and scary things are happening, yes.  All we have to do is stay home and the monster will pass us by.  Another plague that will pass over our closed doorways.  All we have to do is stay home.  Could anything be easier?

So it’s a good time.  It’s a good time to write that story that’s been sitting unfulfilled in your journals for so long.  Read that book that your friend keeps recommending to you.  Find out why Haruki Murakami is such an important writer.  Figure Ulysses out.

It’s a good time to get into that band that you keep hearing about, check out their albums, watch some of their concerts.  Phish.  Now that’s a great band hardly anyone’s ever explored.  What is Django Reinhardt all about?  Why does everyone talk about Lou Reed so much?  Who is Riit?

It’s a good time to watch North of 60 from beginning to end, including all the spinoff movies.  Revisit Battle of the Planets.  Are there any reruns of Get Smart on YouTube?
Now’s a good time to find out.

Is it hard to be alone?  If you can’t be alone with your thoughts, then you need to think some more.  Get to know yourself.  Think about what you want.  About where you want to be.  Think about who you would like to be and how you can get there.  Make a plan.  This is a good time to do that.  Time alone is time with the most important person in your life, who is often also the most neglected.  You should go good together.  You might be The One.  Nah, who are you kidding? You ARE The One.
So it’s a bad time out there, but it can be a good time in here.  Then when the shadow has passed, you can step out into the sun refreshed and maybe even enriched.
Definitely healthy.

All we have to do is stay home.  What could be easier?