It’s Weird As Hell Out Here

Stephen M. Paulsen
4 min readAug 16, 2020
Photo by Aida L on Unsplash

My friend Tony said this to me yesterday: It’s weird as hell out here.

I can’t agree more.

Everything about life right now has something attached to it, a parasite sucking away any hope for joy, satisfaction, contentment. Everything is an effort doubled, tripled in cost because of the drain on our psyche. We are a people used to running a marathon and now we are barely able to walk to the…

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Stephen M. Paulsen

Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare). Debatably pretty. Lots of thorns. High-functioning depressive guarded by wit, sarcasm, and brutal honesty.