So.

If you go online you will be barraged with positive, inspiring, “go get ’em” lists of “things to do today.” I am sure the intent is to encourage us to better ourselves and our lives (in fact I believe there is a whole section in bookstores for this crap).

You know.

Smile more.

Say something nice to someone.

Drink more water.

Sure.

All great reminders. Just not my thing. I don’t mind being happy, nice or hydrated. I just don’t feel the need to be encouraged, or reminded, to do so. Maybe it makes me sound like an asshole, but I just don’t care about that shit. I want to go “do.”

And then I came across a the list made by a teen/young adult shown in the opening image.

Awesome.

Now THIS is my type of thinking.

Yeah. I fully understand that sometimes the day to day grind of life makes you focus on just “getting through the day.”

Trying to be happier.

Trying to be nice so that we get some positive responses from those around us (which inevitably makes us feel better).

Trying to make sure you are hydrated so at least you will not pass out from the stress.

My only fear is that while we are trying to do all those things, you know, trying to be happy through the grind (and seemingly always driving toward that window of opportunity when we get glimpses of life that aren’t a grind and are uncluttered happy moments) we, well, forget to kick some ass.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would imagine if every day all you did was focus on kicking ass and taking names you would be pretty much of an asshole and not have a lot of friendly co-workers.

But.

Kicking ass and taking names does create a different kind of happiness that smiling just cannot create.

And, yeah, it takes more effort than smiling and being nice (well, for most of us, excluding Donald Trump, the Wicked Witch of the West and Alan Rickman in the original Die Hard) but the ‘return’ is bigger. The return is … well … you kicked ass, did some good shit. most likely took some names along the way and have something good to show at the end of the day.

So, in my mind, when you make your list for the week make sure you have kick some ass somewhere on the list. Maybe even dedicate a day to it every week. Aw. Shit. What am I thinking? I want to wake up everyday and go kick some ass. That makes me smile. That makes me happy. That actually makes me nice to people. And I may actually even drink more water. Some of us just want to kick some ass.

I honesty don’t think this makes me an asshole, just possibly a pain in the ass.

That said.

Gotta go.

Time to at least take some names (but I will be looking for some ass kicking opportunities).

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