The Emotionally Distressed Person’s Guide to Doing a Perfect Set of Pushups

1- Lay with your face and palms on the ground.

2- Imagine that the ground is everything. This whole shitty world with its unjust pain and infuriating contradictions.

3- Say no to it. You don’t always have to say yes. Reject the world, just for a moment.

4- Push it away. Physically move the whole fucking planet away from your body.

5- Willingly lower yourself back into the world. Remember it all- the sting of it, the gnawing discomfort of existence, the deafening grief of losing all you have lost, all the suffering- all of it.

6- Push it away.

7- Repeat until your very body shape is a testament to how many times you have said no, your unwillingness to accept the world as it is, and your willingness to accept that this is indeed how you feel about it. That it’s okay to say no. To learn how to push.