10 Times Cartoons Summed Up My Life Perfectly
You know the way people always say “My life is like a soap opera?!” well, my life is like a cartoon. I’ve come to terms with that because I’d love to be a cartoon character (personally I think I’d be a hoot!) but mostly because cartoons have never steered me wrong. So when I say they’ve summed up my life experience to this point, I’m being serious!
As a kid I used to work the odd weekend with my brothers in our dad’s workshop; it was boring, I hated it and we didn’t get paid (I mean, I was spoiled rotten but that’s besides the point). Sometimes we would go out of our way to do a terrible job but Dad, being wiser and not having the brain of a 12 year old, quickly saw through that and made us redo the job.
There are lots of things I love about being alive, two of those are sleeping and eating. Food is a passion of mine and Amethyst from Steven Universe encapsulates that love! Fair enough, I have to eat to stay alive, but I don’t have to eat a 12 inch pizza, a litre of Coke Zero and a packet of Maoam bars to stay alive… I do that because it’s fun.
If I could, and I’m pretty sure I can, I would marry a bed in a heartbeat. Specifically mine. There is no feeling in this world that matches sliding into a cold bed, with fresh sheets, crisp and doused in fabric softener. A hard mattress and soft duck feather pillow are the closest the living ever truly get to heaven on this earth!
Lilo and Stitch taught me lots of things, but this was probably one of the hardest things I’ve had to learn in my life and a bloody animated movie was the thing to enlighten me. How awesome is that!? Failure, if you allow it, can topple you. It can bring you right back to the very start and the journey back from that point is twice as long and hard, but you don’t have to let it. Failure is something we can learn and grow from and take strength and resolve from; if at first you don’t succeed and all that!
Dating! The second most complicated thing on this list! I’ve always tackled it with the ambition and enthusiasm of Gravity Falls’ Mabel, but I don’t take to rejection the same way she does.
Clothes! I loathe them! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like being naked either, but I’m awful at shopping. Just ask any of the poor unfortunates who agreed to take me out for a day to spruce up my wardrobe. I’m working on getting over my own body image issues and this episode of Rocko’s Modern Life with Heffer modelling some very tight under garments certainly helps! If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
I don’t like Tommy Pickles; he always annoyed me on Rugrats but I admired his ability to lead the other babies and I respected his assertiveness. Sometimes, even if you don’t like it, you have to do something just to get it over and done with – bite the bullet, get out there and just do it!
Is it too late to add a third thing to my list of complicated stuff? Dealing with friends has always been tough; juggling the relationships and making sure to have time for everyone was hard until social media kicked off and made everything worse! If you’re checking what you post and editing/deleting it so as not to upset someone in your ‘Friends’ list, then chances are you need to have a conversation with yourself!
Remember when you were a kid and you thought you wanted to be a shopkeeper or a lollipop lady? Those jobs seemed so awesome! As you get older, though, you realise the entire world has been lying to you! Work isn’t glamorous whether you’re stacking shelves or being shanked by a colleague on the corporate ladder – work sucks.
The worst thing about work is starting a new job; that first day/week/month when you stress out because you realise all that BS on your CV was actually a lie and you’ve no idea how to operate the system in front of you…
Video games aren’t fun and these days I’m seeing them more and more like a therapist than a form of entertainment. I’m beginning to realise just how toxic I can be in an online game, and I’m going to be looking at that down the line in a future piece, but I’d like to figure out just when video games stopped being a source of joy for me!
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This is exactly what it’s like to be running this place for the last five years… I’m kidding… mostly…
Editor-in-Chief, part-time super villain and hoarder of cats. If you can’t find me writing, I’m probably in the kitchen!
