Eeyore is my spirit animal, thanks for coming to my TED talk

I was trying all week to come up with a humorous, yet semi-uplifting while also eye opening blog. However, every time I sat down to write I. just. couldn’t. Unlike Amy Poehler I don’t blame my phone for not cranking out a post earlier. Although I believe pinterest is like meth for the pre-planner in me. I was being more stumped by my mood. I didn’t want to write a blog while I was feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, because I wouldn’t be in the head space to be funny. I mean who wants to read a blog written by someone who sounds like they just hit their pre-quarter life crisis (yes it does exist). I just wanted to bring something more. Then I realized, I could just be overwhelmed and exhausted.


I mean who doesn’t find Eeyore to be an absolute gem, people can still respect and appreciate you when you’re not okay. Right? Wrong. Unless you’re a genuinely depressed donkey, with a detachable tail, society does not find melancholy endearing. But you know what, who cares? I’m going to take a lesson from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey “I don’t care if you like it “(145). I mean you all seem like very enjoyable people, so I am sure you will endure this blog, post-breakdown rant I am about to see through. But to everyone else I DON”T CARE IF YOU LIKE IT!


Except I do, I very much do, shh don’t tell anyone. I have to look strong and empowered to pretend that I am not letting the idea, that everyone else has cranked out beautiful blogs get to me. Yes i’m fine, don’t ask me again or I’ll cry. In our life sometimes it feels like too much will not be enough. Like Tina Fey said in Bossy Pants “there are an infinite number of things that can be “incorrect ``''(20). While she mostly was exploring and ridiculing the impossible standards of beauty placed on women, I believe it also applies to our personalities and actions.


Its very hard to be upset or angry as a woman. I could pay for my overpriced education if I got a quarter every time I was asked if I was ‘pms-ing’ cause I was irritated. No Billy, I am irritated because your societal expectations of me have pushed me to a limit where I feel I have to prove myself in every aspect of my life, and don’t ever get told anything other than I am not enough. Breathe. DOES THAT SOUND LIKE PMS TO YOU.


I didn’t think so, even the most talented women in our society must be smiling at all times so they can be accepted. Mindy Kaling discussed in Why not me how people expect her to be smiling and happy all the time. Now that expectations has rubbed off on her so she can’t even feel overwhelmed by herself without feeling guilty. That makes no sense. Just cause you’re successful doesn’t mean you have to be happy. Just because we are women doesn’t mean we have to be happy. Just cause I am young does not mean I have to be happy.


I have gotten to the point where my shower head hears most of my innermost thoughts and feelings cause that's the only safe place to convey them. We have built a society that expects us to just be fine. None of us are, especially not me, should I write that...too late, yet we are expected to put on a facade. I would connect all these emotions to Fanny Fern and her ideas about roles, and Barreca with her ideas on the Good girl and Bad girl. Every person in society has a facade they put on for something.


Women wear them for everything, because they have been told they will never be enough, so they may as well be nice and easy on the eyes. Cat people also wear them cause admit it, we are the minority *stay strong*. But I’m gonna defy that. I am tired, busy and doing a lot of emotional eating. I am gonna tell you all that right here. I am not always happy and funny, and neither is my writing. Women are allowed to be off, everyone is allowed to be off. That is just something our world has to accept, and learn to show compassion towards rather than contempt.