Good things happen on bad days too

[untonuggan]

Today I got up and wanted to post all the rage I'm having about George Zimmerman and anti-abortion legislation and the attempted bombing of a mosque in the West Midlands and just all the reasons why this world we live in is generally SNAFU'd right now. It feels like Sauron is winning and I am pissed off.

Then I remembered the last time I was hospitalized, and how it was right around the Boston Marathon Bombings. And how I had Particularly Dark Timez (TM) around the DC Sniper Shootings. And you know what? I wasn't alone. The holidays aren't the only time mental health facilities fill up. Any time there's been a news event that I have found ~*~!infuriating or triggering beyond my capability to express it!~*~ there have been others in those facilities experiencing the same thing.

Someone even made a painting of Trayvon Martin in art therapy; it was posted on the wall of an inpatient hospital.

If the local can affect the global, so the global can affect the local. What is more local than our own bodies, our own mental health?

Yes it is important to stay engaged, to make a difference in the world. But we need to be fully charged to do so. Therefore, in response to what some are calling "the worst day on the internet", I am dubbing this entry a safe space.

Here is a place to recharge. A virtual "book of happy" for anyone who cares to participate, if you will. Feel free to post inspiring quotes, funny pictures or animated gifs, alllllll the cute animal photos, good songs, whatever. Just please, don't bring the news here. This is a news free zone.

I am currently leaving comments unscreened, but if it becomes a problem then I will turn screening on.

Comments

[elf]

THANK YOU FOR THIS.

I'd contributed to the Glitch Soundtrack project on Indiegogo way back when, and recently got the "Glitch Ringtones, Alerts & Sound Effects" collection.

It has a thing. I don't know how to describe it. It's called the "Glitch Sound Thingy-Doer" and it's a pack of sounds and scripty-bits and images, so you not only hear the tinkertool or the random kindness sound, you get to see the animation too.

It opens with the Glitch opening sequence. And, wow, that brings up GOOD memories and throws me into Instant Happyspace, even with all the sadness because it's gone now. Am now trying to decide which sound effect to use for email notifications on my work Blackberry, because I could use a tiny happy-ping when I get new messages.

(I cannot figure out how to share the Glitch opening sequence. I don't have a tumblr and Grooveshark tends to crash my browser.)

[untonuggan]

YOU'RE WELCOME, I really need it today.

Aw, GLITCH. I should see about getting Glitch ringtones for my phone...that would be awesome.

[staranise]

Oh my gosh, I would love Glitch notifications.

[elf]

I'm thinking of using one of the quoin shard noises for new email notifications. I thought about the new quest announcement, but it's longer than I want. (Also, new quests were happy things, and new work emails aren't, always. But they're at least always worth something.)

Two of my co-workers' phone calls are set to the Rube tune. They work in sales & marketing.

[carrie]

My doctors all get the "waiting room muzak" as their ringtone. :D

[carrie]

I can enable this wish! ;)