Friday Struggle Bus, wk 41, Rural Edition
Rough crowd here tonight.
Well, I’m sorry to announce it’s time for this week’s Friday Struggle Bus.
My personal struggle this week finally brought me to a physician who could successfully read my MRI.
We did about an hour’s worth of confirming neurological tests before he gave me the bad news. My sense of humor had deteriorated to the point where it was all but gone. This was something that could only be seen in an MRI with a contrast agent, but there it was. (wasn’t)
He ran through a checklist with me and, at one point, asked me if I had ever tried to write regular feature pieces of a non-specific, humorous nature in Medium.
I had to admit that I had tried to do so many times.
He had almost a look of satisfaction on his face for such a fast discovery.
“I’m afraid many of those readers only like problem/solution-based journalism and don’t really enjoy jocularity. In fact, some of them possess an almost negative sense of humor that can drain the light-heartedness right out of your articles.”
“And possibly out of you as well, it seems,” he said.
He gave me a prescription consisting of a list of books, magazines, and movies to work on for the next six months, at which time I hope the next MRI will show improvement.
I know I have brought this on myself, with my writing, which only I found to be funny, according to my stats page. Forcing a square peg into a round hole, as it were.
Henceforth, I will try to drop the week’s hilarities (only to me) and pursue a more serious vein of contemplative type essays.
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