Bumperpodcast #317 – Saddy Bumpercar

Natty Bumpercar: um i'm i'm sad i'm i'm really sad uh hey hey bumsy what's good what's going on you sound pretty down yeah i'm i don't know i'm just kind of sad today i woke up and i think there's just a lot going on in the world and just a lot going on and i think sometimes i get overwhelmed and sometimes i get kind of sad and it's not a good feeling and and i i don't i don't like it very much i like being happy i think i wish i was happy right now but but right now i just i'm pretty sad yeah well you know it's okay buddy i think people you get sad sometimes you know maybe you you you slept kind of wrong or well you know was there anything in particular that happened that made you sad or was it just kind of a a general uh general malaise i don't i don't think it's any one thing in particular um i think it's just uh everything on top of everything on top of everything you know yes everything is what you're saying yeah yeah it's fine buddy you're okay i don't know it's it's everything yeah i i feel i wish i i wish people were nice to each other and i wish that people were nice to each other all the time even though i understand they can't be nice to each other all the time and i wish that people helped each other and worked with each other and it would make the world a better place i think yeah well i mean of course it would listen my my philosophy as a pig is that the world's a very difficult place you wake up in the morning maybe you're you're you you got sore bones from how you slept you so you're starting your day off it's kind of rough then you're rushing from here today maybe you're going to a job you don't necessarily love all that much maybe you know for your instance maybe one of your kids did something kind of crazy i don't know maybe uh yeah maybe irving brown socks decided to go to a job and i'm like oh my god i don't know if i'm going to be able to use the basement for uh for a bathroom which it's not it's a basement there ain't no bathroom down there yeah uh you know there's i don't know it's just uh there's a lot of things that's what you're saying right you keep saying a lot of things everything everything it's it's understandable the world it there's a lot going on the world yeah and you know you you you just get sad it's tough to navigate yeah and some days you just ain't got the you ain't the hotspot to put to put into it you know yeah i feel like a um okay most days i feel like a balloon that's full of helium right that's the stuff that makes it float and i can uh i can float around the world and i can you know have fun and i'll let the wind i let the wind take me to wherever it wants to go and i kind of roll with that and i go with that within the structure of normal everyday life then some days i guess either the helium wears out or the air in me it leaves me and i feel deflated uh and then i'm kind of closer to the ground and i'm getting trampled on and kicked around and pushed around and then some days it's even worse where you know there's prickly things and you float into a prickly thing it's a prickly thing and um it actually pokes you and then it lets your air out and life's i don't know it's this i feel like i've come up with a pretty good analogy i'm like a little balloon and right now i feel like all my all my helium is gone and and i'm stuck on a prickly plant and then there's also uh darts being thrown at me there's just dots from every angle um yeah well it's a lot and you know don't get me wrong i i have a great life you do i have a wonderful life you do it's it's just sometimes it's just too much when things are out of your control and you you you wanna you i want the best for everything yeah yeah and uh of course you do because you're a good guy right you know i don't know oh buddy listen when i when i when i get sad When I get a case of the Seds, when I'm carrying around in my luggage a suitcase full of Seds stuff, what I like to do is either I open my eyes and I look at the skies and I think of all the wonderful things in the world. And I think of people and I think of my friends like you. And I think of relationships I have with all kinds of people. And I think, you know, you go out, you make people happy. You tell jokes and people laugh and they feel a little bit better, right? Not all the time, but sometimes, yeah. Yeah, well, sometimes. Sometimes it don't work out. That's understandable. But here's the thing. You got to look around the world, right? You can't pull into yourself. No, no, I know. Although sometimes I do. I close my eyes and I take a deep breath. Okay. And I do that, you know, a few times and I just… Like deep breathing? You're just breathing? Kind of center myself. Oh, okay. And I'm like, okay. Yeah. It's not that bad. Yeah. Right? You know, right when things are happening, they feel worse. But if you get a little perspective… Perspective? If you're able to like, just again, you take a deep breath. Yeah. And you just let it flow off of you. The bad stuff? And you take a step away and you look over at it and you think, man, that don't feel good, that thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, what can I do to make it not feel as bad? You know, what can I do to that thing that's over there that's affecting me, that's making me not feel great? Yeah. To make it make me feel less bad. Okay. And here's the thing. Yeah. Sometimes it's out of your control. And so what you got to do is you got to… You got to be like, all right, I'm going to help it as much as I can, but I'm not going to negatively impact myself, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Right? Yeah. And I'm going to just have to step away. Yeah. And I'm going to have to like, just let go a little bit. Let go. Because you can't get too invested in things. No. Even if you are, even if you have to be. But sometimes you have to be, yeah. To the point where you're hurting yourself by making yourself feel bad, right? Yeah. It's like I'm speaking some real knowledge here. You really are. And Pig, I got to say, and listen, Bumper Podcast, I apologize. This isn't a super funny episode. It's not a fun episode. But, you know, people see me and they're like, oh, Natty Bumpercar, you're always happy. You're always so chipper. And it's, you know, for the most part I am. But sometimes I do, I do get sad. And most of the times what I like to say is I like to be like a goose. And I like to let things, bad things hit me. And then just roll off of my feathers. Just like the rain rolls off of a goose. But sometimes things stick. And the problem is, is when things do stick, then the more stuck, the more bad stuff that is stuck on your feathers, the easier it is for bad stuff to get stuck on your feathers. So the second that you let something just get on you, then more stuff is going to pile on and pile on and pile on. So if you ever feel sad. You know, I think Pig had great advice. You have to just either go within yourself and take a deep breath and just realize that you're a good person. And, you know, you don't have control of everything in the world. And you just breathe and you just push that stuff out. Or you open your eyes and then you take a look around the world and you think of all the good things in the world. And then maybe that won't make you feel sad anymore. Yeah. You know, like I think you said. I said perspective. You got to have perspective. And perspective, what that means, if there's any kids listening, is it's just how you look at things. And how you look at things and the way you look at things will sometimes change how you view things, how you see things, how you interact with things. Right? And so that's a good thing. So it helps you if you're having trouble. To look at things from a different angle because then maybe you'll figure a way to solve it or at least figure out a way to feel a little bit better about it. I feel like even I mean so and just talk to people talk like me talking to pig right now has made me feel so much better. Like we I don't even have to talk about specific things that are bothering me. Just talking just it gets it off your chest. It gets takes the weight off of your shoulders. It just it because it again. It that helps you to remove yourself from it and and sometimes that's all it takes and and so thanks pig and thank you bumper podcast and if you're ever sad, please let me know reach out to me reach out to somebody who can help you because there's people in the world who want to help you and who want to make you feel better and hopefully I'm one of those people and this show does that for you because you do it for me and high fives hugs and hearts. You're the best and thank you guys so much. Yeah, right. I mean, here's the thing talking what he just said. It's the best thing ever. He's got to reach out to people people. You ain't talked to in a long time and maybe if you have guilt about something you talk to somebody about it. It helps you just talking talking talking get it out of you. You can't let it just sit inside of you. I mean bumps. We didn't talk about me today, but I know I'm actually pretty happy today. You are pretty pretty happy. Can I tell you why? Yeah, please. Because that's the other thing is me talking to you and you being happy makes me happy because you're happy. So you see how that works out. You're taking me out of my sadness so that you can talk about what makes you happy. Tell me tell me tell me pig. Why in the world are you happy? Because I want to know well, I'm happy because I happen to come by the studio today and I found my friend Natty bumper car who is very upset and you sounded like he was going to cry. And you're not going to cry now. I don't think maybe you are and I was able to talk to you and say some words and make you feel better. So it's that's why I'm having such a good day because I had a positive impact on my friend today. And right now I'm having a positive impact on you and you and you and you and you everybody on the bumper podcast get tears. So again, that's what you do. You get yourself a friend you talk to that friend. You feel a little bit better and your friend feels better and then it grows and it grows and it grows and it grows and it grows until everyone in the world feels better. So go go smile at somebody today. Go go say thank you to somebody go do something nice because the nicer you are to people the better you're going to feel. That's what I'm saying. Well, I think you're right and I think you cover a lot of ground today pig and I can't thank you enough. Yeah, go be nice to people the nicer you are to people the better you're going to feel. Even if they're not nice in return don't matter because you were nice to them. And so you put that in your nice Bank and you carry it around and then your nice Bank gets more and more full of nice and then you feel a little bit better. And then sometimes you feel sad and that's fine because then you go and talk about it and then you feel better go feel better bumper podcast because here the best.

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