How do you?

How do you make yourself eat bananas?

How do you not swoon over stylish, well-cut clothes with top stitching and fancy zipper pulls? It's all so shallow and stupid, but you can't help yourself.

How do you force yourself to like playing with your kids? They're your kids and you adore them, but you are not at all keen on hopping across the floor on pillows trying to escape imaginary crocodiles.

How do you stop daydreaming your way through the hours?

How do you keep away the revolving thoughts of death, of not existing, that push through your mind on a creaking, endless turnstile?

How do you stop wanting more?

How do you put down the cookies?

How do you remember anything at all without writing it in at least five places?

How do you keep the wonder alive?

How do you find enough energy?

How do you?

Comments

[all things BD]

That's a lot of I don't knows for me. I DO know that Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches often help to overcome a LOT of uncertainty.

[Parul]

The banana's are ok...
but on the rest - aah a kindred spirit! i could have written the rest!

[vodkamom]

I never stop wanting more- more laughter, more quiet moments, more love, more happiness and more barbeque potato chips. damn.

[vodkamom]

I LOVED this post.

[Michele]

Can't stand bananas so I don't even try. Everything else? I'm so with you there.

[Sheryl]

I like bananas.
I hate clothes and shopping,
I don't force myself to play with my kids. The definition of play is FUN! So I find things that are fun for me too.

I never daydream. Be glad you daydream, it's a creative endeavor

I'll think about death when I'm older.

I'm pretty satisfied.

As for the cookies, I have no earthly idea how to stop eating them. I suspect that you don't eat as many as you think or you would look more like me and less like you.

Alright, I won't torture you by answering every question :) I liked this post.

[Trenches of Mommyhood]

Not sure either. Lemme know when you get an answer!

[InTheFastLane]

I just ate 1/2 a tube of thin mints. They were sent to my office from heaven. Not sure I am going to be much help with the rest of the questions, although I do like bananas. But, are bananas all that important? really?

[jenni-lynn]

How do you stop loving something you know you shouldnt?

[Fannie]

If you figure any of it out...write a book.

[Nora Bee]

How do you do write such lovely things?

[Tootsie Farklepants]

Between you and me I never put down the cookies.

[LemonySarah]

How do I? Easy! I don't!

[Indymomma]

wow. I lurved this post. I don't know, I just DO. Right now because I know I am not struggling with depression, I don't feel like I have a choice. These are things that must be done and done, if not with joy, then with the attitude of "suck it up". But in the darker days, any and all of these can crush me just by the thought of them.

Oh, and red wine helps.

[Cactus Petunia]

What's so great about being a grownup if you're still gonna get forced to eat bananas?

[kcinnova]

I forget everything, I nap often, and I *AM* the crocodile (which is a great deal of fun).

What do you mean I'm supposed to put the cookies down? They called my name first!! ;)

[Janine]

Sheesh. I don't know.
Brilliant post.

[Vanessa McGrady]

The only thing I can think to tell you is yoga. It stops everything for 90 minutes. You get to be all about you. And it's good for your high-water bootie.

[Alexis]

One tiny step at a time is the only way I know!

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