So you know how people sometimes try to make you feel better by reminding you of everything good in the world, like candy, the laughter of small children, and kittens snuggling with balls of yarn? And then you’re all like, but candy makes you fat, small children are fucking annoying, and kittens, though adorable, are also food for giant hawks.  Well, you win that argument. The world is awful.

There are people being killed all over the place, and sick from really shitty diseases. Remember when the Rwandan Genocide happened? No? Well that fucking sucked and there’s more of that murder shit going on all the time. Then again, why the fuck is that your problem?  You probably have more immediate things to focus on. You’re all depressed and miserable and can’t get your life together because you’re overwhelmed with being all depressed and miserable. Or maybe you’re doing okay, but you’re not at peak productivity because you have to spend half your energy covering up how fucking miserable you are. You are not in a position to go fix the world, so why the fuck focus on all of its problems?

Why? Because it’s better than focusing on your own problems. It makes you deep instead of pathetic. Or it just distracts you from the awful all around you. That sweet surrender to the overwhelming sense that nothing you do really matters in the larger scheme of things is fun. And you get to avoid responsibility for your own life by drowning it out in the big sadness of the world.

Warning: that shit is pointless. Life is not about what matters in the larger scheme of things, a.k.a. the awful world where everything is awful. Life is about the bullshit happening to you and the people you know, and the things you care about, a.k.a. your awful life where everything is awful. You can go around being miserable about what is happening in the world, but don’t forget all of the misery right in front of you in your own life.

Furthermore, while it may be selfish to focus on your own problems, who the fuck cares? If being selfish means you deal with your own problems first, then everyone should be more fucking selfish. Because is there anything more annoying than some hypocritical crusader running around the world trying to save everyone when they don’t take care of themselves or those who are closest to them? Yeah, maybe this. But not much else.

So fuck the world. Let it go be awful on its own . You worried about all the world’s awful? Fuck that. You can get to it later. Procrastinate the fuck out of that shit.  Take care of your shit, take care of the people you are responsible for’s shit, and then get around to whatever fucking else is left. There is enough awful right in front of you without needing to seek out all of the other bullshit out there.