the value of joy
Sometimes I post —
A photo or story on Facebook that to me is —
Just fucking awesome and funny and intriguing and I don’t care if it’s true or not.
A raccoon carrying a kitten meme?
That to me is hilarious and wonderful. Yay!
Then —
Someone shows up.
“Oh that’s totally photoshopped.”
Or,
“Oh that’s totally not true here are 50 facts from the table of elements to prove that is wrong.”
I sit there stunned.
[And not for the right reasons, you robotic asshole fact checkers.]
Some things in this world and on the internet are just funny and wonderful and don’t have to make sense. A meme of a raccoon carrying a kitten will not make a single difference in wars or deaths or school lunches for little kids who will starve to death if the little kids don’t get those lunches —
But that meme will, for a moment, make me smile.
Stop trying to kill the smiles, you assholes.
Sometimes that is all we have.