Prompt: "A song to listen to for when you'd rather be listening to a podcast or some shit"
Selected by Gilson
"Lottery"
Single Mothers
Roy, 2023
I don't know what this prompt means. If I'd rather be listening to a podcast, I'm just going to go listen to a podcast. If I can't listen to a podcast because I'm at work or something, I can't listen to music I want to either. If I am at a social gathering and thus can't listen to a podcast, my wanting to do so probably is a good indicator that my social battery has run dry and it is in my best interest to leave anyway, so I am going to do so.
This has been one of my greatest discoveries in sobriety, and it's improved my life immensely. It's that meme, the "If it sucks, you can leave" one. No matter what the outing is. I sometimes joke that I get to use my sobriety as an excuse to leave sometimes, but the reality is that it is more about my mental health. And if I'm somewhere I don't want to be, then I'm going to leave. The anxiety and melancholy that comes from being somewhere might not lead me to drink, but I am sure that it's not going to lead me to have more fun.
So anyway, I picked this song because I thought about which band feels the most like I'm listening to a podcast, and Single Mothers it is.
1 comment:
Dude, this is such a good point. My outlook these days—and as you said, maybe the sobriety is just an excuse, I dunno—is that it's nice to hang out on the fringes of a party. Less pressure to be at the heart of the thing, no more "life of the party" (if that was even ever a thing in the first place for me), but rather just being comfortable being the relaxed guy chilling in the corner, ready to hang out with anyone who needs a break from the party and just wants to chat for a bit.
Not that I'm at many parties these days to begin with, but that's how I'm trying to deal with that type of situation.
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