Billy has a headache. Must be the end of the world since it was raining all day and his plans to be outside had changed. An altogether rotten day because he was now stuck for something to do. Billy thought he must be rotten too, unable to do anything productive. He was starting to feel miserable and depressed. Why?
Misconceptions, assuming, inferring, guessing, supposing, interpreting, projecting, speculating, deducing, extrapolating, presuming, conjecturing, attributing, hypothesizing, divining and reading between the lines.
Living in an imperfect world insisting that things ought to go smoothly, that mishap must not occur, that the sun must always shine, and that the people in our lives need to behave, as we have told them to? Billy knew this was irrational. Just the same, he felt that he needed an answer to why he felt so shitty and this too, was also making him feel miserable.
Finally, he realized it was just a lack of imagination, about the present and too much imagination about the past. Allowing himself to feel useless and personalize a rainy day, when in fact, it was simply raining was extrapolation and reading between the lines.
Therefore, it was time to take a break from the mental diarrhea and begin to do some writing.
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