Embracing the Suck

By Derek Neighbors on January 25, 2021

We all have our fucking bitch voice. Mine tells me all the time. The cold fucking sucks. The wet fucking sucks. Snow fucking sucks. Anything less than sunshine you can stick it up your ass. Lucky for me, my bitch voice ain’t winning today. It’s a real motherfucker out here cause it’s rain. Fucking cold, fucking shitty. You know what though, I’m fucking happy about it.

It’s fucking weird. The music comes on. It’s got a little dance to my step. I started freezing. My feet are fucking water logged and got fucking slosh coming out of my feet. Then you got little fucking shit like that it’s fucking everywhere, but you know what? It’s a good day to be alive.

Sometimes you got to remember that when you do the shit other people won’t fucking do. People look at you like you’re fucking crazy. Which right now I’m getting a lot of that because I’m fucking in shorts. That’s where the fucking magic happens. Man. Tell your voice off, get the fuck out there. Pay your goddamn fucking dues.

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