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We Need to Stop Adulting So Hard
Take a break from being so grown up and take time to laugh. It will make you a better person, I promise.
My sister and I had a great conversation a few months ago. She was sick of the nonsense at work and I was tired of life, career and the daily grind. We reminisced about our childhood and young adult days when we did things just to make each other laugh. Life was an adventure and we never took ourselves too seriously. But the older we get, the more we feel to be informed about the latest political news and compelled to be career oriented, serious grown women. So we complied…and we weren’t happy.
We decided then and there it was time to make a change. We needed so desperately to laugh again. She said, we need to do something stupid just to make ourselves experience joy again. Then she proceeded to pitch me the most insane bumper sticker idea complete with a social media marketing plan. Imagine the Twitter feed, she said. It would be hysterical. So we started to plan. It is an awful, insane plan. And we are laughing so hard.
Next, enter my brother’s Twitter feed. He had been sending me daily texts of the funniest tweets he finds. It was amazing. In the middle of my day, I get the funniest text messages. Out of nowhere, I am suddenly in a great mood. I asked him to add…
