Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Dear existential angst

Dear existential angst, you show up and you're never welcome.
You've high fived me on the subway, patted my back in the bath house and grabbed my behind in the supermarket. You're rude, loud and inconsiderate, making me want to scream No No No. That doesn't help much.
And because I lack religious leanings, I've had to make up my own chant to make you go away. Seems these are the words you least want to hear:
"Glad to be here, we're all in the same boat". Repeated in absurdum.
Please stay away from me.

7 comments:

Jennie said...

Um, I know you don't believe in anything, but you must be psychic. I repeat that very thing daily, so I don't just crumple up and die right where I'm standing.

Jennie said...

Now I want to cry. F*cking hormones.

jenny said...

i am too tired to repeat your mantra, which i think means existential angst is kicking my ass yet again. i am too tired to defeat it! but a good walk round stockholm would do wonders. and then perhaps some lunch at backfickan with my cousin daniel. pytt y panna, i can taste you now.

The Rat said...

sometimes you just have to let the angst win for a day or two while you build up your strength again. You'll always triumph in the end though
xx

Mandy said...

Row your boat gently (life is but a dream).

J said...

Angst exists amongst the religious, too.

lisa c. said...

"in absurdum" --that eradicated my existential angst, thank you