Accepting That Good Things Happen

When good things happen to and for me I have a hard time talking about it and/or acknowledging it.

Mostly because once I accomplish something I immediately turn to the next challenge.

And then think of what I haven’t yet accomplished.

Also, I don’t want to make anyone feel like I feel like I’m better than them. So I try to downplay it because who the fuck am I.

There’s a long and complicated history of why my mind leads me to these self-defeating beahaviors, but I have a strong feeling that I’m not alone. I’m certain that some of you also have a history that shut off the “be-happy-for-yourself” natural instinct.

So to that end I’d like to tell you about two great things that happened, one last week and one a year ago.

First, I got curated on Medium! I regularly publish articles with various publications on Medium, but have yet to be curated, which means that Medium selects your piece to feature on their first page.

But last week they finally chose one of mine, published with Greener Pastures. It’s called. Are You Alt-Right Enough for This Dating Website?: A Quiz. Check it out here.

When I sat down to write a blog about this today it came to me - I never wrote about my book Inside Melania What I Know About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her getting to the Amazon Kindle bestseller list - in fact, to #3 - for New Releases in Celebrity & Pop Culture. And #9 in Celebrity & Pop Culture Humor. And #10 in Parodies. I kept thinking, “Whatever, these are fringe categories, and besides I’d rather people buy the print copy.”

See the pattern?

So I’m inserting the screenshot here to admit to myself - and you - that this in fact did happen. And no matter anything else that happened or didn’t (our 2020 tour was canceled) this is something of which I can be proud.

How about you? How hard is it to share when good things happen?