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You know how sometimes, there are issues in life that you know you should deal with, that you really need to deal with or think about or analyze or come to some decision about? But instead, you push those things to the back of your consciousness and try to forget about them and pretend they don’t exist and everything will be fine forever, and really, why worry yourself over stuff like that?

Yeah, I feel like there are more and more of those things surrounding me every day. And I’m just all “la la la I don’t hear you” about them. I think this is why, in spite of the fact that I do almost nothing at work right now, I still feel like I need a vacation (that I can’t afford).

Also, I feel like there’s just nothing for me to look forward to right now, both personally, and in a broader sense. Some might say I have the classic symptoms of depression going. Others would call me “a realist.” I’m not sure what I could call myself (other than being in denial). Maybe “a depressed (and depressing) realist.”

I suspect this is what starts many otherwise reasonable people down the road to a drinking problem.