Monday F'n Motivation: Week 22
Technical difficulties…
Weekly Motivational Fucks to Survive 2025
This week: Just fucking survive. And, maybe make time to look out of a new window, see if the future horizon is visible.
Just Fucking Survive
I’ve had technical difficulties the last few weeks after my Mac mini could no longer take the heat, in an AC-less southern summer. My old laptop already overheats, and my phone is also old, too old to run editing programs.
I bear a technological scarlet letter:
Archaic.
As such, these motivation designs will need to change to match the crushing poverty of the writer. But, that’s the point of these posts in the first place, right?
Things break—electronics, bodies, relationships, nation states, hope. It’s just how things go.
Impermanence.
You learn to do without by accepting that you were never going to have it forever, anyway. Finding a way around isn’t something I write about lightly, but it is a way of life. It’s the only way when life commands it. In these times, that is often.
This week’s image is a picture I took out of a Kasa hotel in New Orleans, where the tub was clogged and I couldn’t properly shower for 4 days. I shit you not, an international Pokémon convention had the hotel booked solid. No swaps available, no gym on site, no solutions. (Kasa has offered a 20% refund, not even covering one night.)
But the view was enjoyable, I soaked up AC for several nights, and I sold my first art piece (two, actually.) I never thought I’d do a lot of things in New Orleans, and that was definitely one of them. It is a city that never fails to beat ya up and then gift you something magical to do more with, if you’re brave enough.
So, that’s what I’m taking into this next week—things break, it’s all overwhelming, the world is filled with ghoulish assholes and truly evil motherfuckers, and then, eventually, something beautiful happens, and you hold onto that through the wreckage of survival.