Wow. What a depressing life…a job, people who enjoy you, getting laid. My life is closer to the first two pictures, and the last three pictures, on a loop (insert sitting at computer between them.) Anyone who has a life like this and complains needs a wakeup call.
Dan – I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full.
And you don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and you’re sick of the taste and you don’t know if you will ever enjoy food again and you don’t know why this is happening.
If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says, “Well have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?” It isn’t necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everything…tasted…like mashed…potatoes.
Well put.
love this one
Can’t think of a comic I’ve connected with more deeply.
Wow. I feel like a creep for relating to this THAT much.
Wow, This is my life. Fuck.
Is this funny or just depressing?
Yeah, that’s it. Except I can’t even try for a functional relationship. Three steps from pulling a happy rabbit.
Wow. What a depressing life…a job, people who enjoy you, getting laid. My life is closer to the first two pictures, and the last three pictures, on a loop (insert sitting at computer between them.) Anyone who has a life like this and complains needs a wakeup call.
I think that’s the point, Dan, even a superficially wonderful life can, and often does, fail to actually make you happy.
Dan – I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full.
And you don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and you’re sick of the taste and you don’t know if you will ever enjoy food again and you don’t know why this is happening.
If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says, “Well have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?” It isn’t necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everything…tasted…like mashed…potatoes.