Hey, Kid.
Hey, Folks.
How have you all been?
I hope you've been fine wherever you are on this planet of ours.
Me?
I've been doing my best, you know?
Maybe a little less than my best...
Hmm.
I always feel like I can't do enough, regardless of what I am doing.
Maybe that's something that I need to heal beyond, you know?
Hmm, again.
Lately, I've been feeling a lot.
Just feeling...
And I don't know why.
Maybe I do.
I think I have a habit of putting myself on the back burner when I enter a relationship, and I think that it's starting to happen.
I need to make sure that I don't lose myself...
I fall so deeply in love that I start to see only my significant other, and not myself.
I start to tend to and pour into them, and I put myself and my needs aside.
I need to make sure that I don't lose myself...
I hope that all of you have been well and that you gain all the strength you need to get by in this tough thing that we call life.
Life doesn't get any harder; we just get stronger.
We just get better.
Continue to grow and get better, Kid.
You all as well, Folks.
Life is short, and before you know it, you are a few years from turning 40 years old.
It all happens so quickly.
It is scary.
Daunting.
But it's nothing YOU can't handle.
You have my blood.
To me, that would be enough, but both science and logic demand that a portion of your genes come from someone else, and I can't definitively say who that person is at this point.
I like that this little book didn't become a watered-down version of "How I Met Your Mother.", lmao.
That was never my intention.
I just wanted to show these little tales to the world since I don't think...
Well, I don't KNOW if you will ever be born into this world.
Hmm, a third time.
I suppose we will see someday, huh?
Life.
See you all soon, yeah?
Enjoy.
(Slips into the cockpit of the Slappery-Slappish-Slappington 3000 while wondering why it's called a cockpit, and if 'Vaginal Cavity' would roll off the tongue a bit better.)
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June 9th, 2020.
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Dear You.
All is as well as it's going to get for a while,
But change is on its way.
At this point, I will just leave it in the hands of the Universe.
What will be, will be.
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(Splaps back into 2022. This IS 2022...right? RIGHT!?")
Hmm.
Another short one, huh?
I can only assume that this was based on or around the heavy racial tension that was in the air around that time, but I can't really recall.
Young me didn't really go into details, you know?
I am almost sure that it is in reference to the death of George Floyd.
May he rest in peace, and may his family have/find peace with his passing and the events that surrounded it.
I won't speak to much on that, as we all know what happened, even if we will never truly know why, you know?
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Just be wary and stay humble, Kid.
You as well, Folks.
This world is sprinkled with some strange people.
Some angry people.
Some hateful people.
Some misguided people.
Some sad people.
Just be mindful of who and what you are, and you will be okay.
Live and let live.
Love and let love.
We are getting closer to the end of this here book, you know?
Hmm.
It's been quite the road with all of you.
You have done so much good for me, you have absolutely no idea...
Young me would have bawled his eyes out at all of these views.
62.93K in English, and an additional 17.04K in Spanish.
That is beyond me, and the fact that any of you return week after week for little old me is mind-blowing.
I love you all.
You as well, and especially Kid.
I will leave you all at that, and I will see you all back here soon enough, yeah?
Should the Universe and God will it, that is.
Safe travels till then, yeah?
And as always:
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.
Stay vigilant.
-Bluu.