How To: Get Over It

By: Ricky Martin

A process such as this is for when you have reached your end; of patience, of hope, of faith and trust. Administer after social networking sites have failed you and you must, as reluctant as you may be, return to the real world. Turn off the computer, stop answering texts, and apply direct pressure to where it hurts the most.


1. Change your sheets.
- The instant confessions of "recently" are read and the proof is in, go to your bed and tear that shit up. While images of match striking or dumpster chucking may seem justifiable, please remember that your mother ordered those for you and that you are trying your best to not claw at the innocent.

2. Disassemble
-remove all the crap you've displayed in your room to remind your Monday-Thursday self of weekends with them. Use only enough force to enjoy disassembling the shrine. Place them in a pile face down in some Everything Drawer, since you know yourself all too well and will probably want them face up again someday.


3.Wallow
- assemble feel-good items in your freshly made bed. These should be items personal only to you; a diary, a choreography notebook, the booklet of your favorite cd, the novel you wish you had time to finish. Stumble across the movie that ironically fits your situation perfectly and furrow your eybrows with the protagonist. Let sit for 2-3 hours or until eyebrows have relaxed.

4. Comatose
- Sleep until the cursed daylight has gone away, then get your ass outta bed and eat some dinner. Return immediately to bed and go back to sleep. Later, shake off the terrible dreams you had.

"Tonight I'm finding a way to make the things that you say just a little less obvious."

5. Finish a project
- Completing a project that puts your mind and heart back in the time that now causes soreness will provide small, but beneficial closure. Finish reading that novel.

6. CD
- buy that full-length that you've been meaning to make yours. Let it sink into your veins like you used to do so easily.

7. The Outfit
- You've been debating on still going through with those plans made before your shit hit the disco ball. Go, but go in something that makes you feel new. Even pieces of new. Think sugar cookies, then sugar cookies plus chocolate chips. Which one says, "I mean business" ?

8. A Moment
- Make no plans for the unexpectedly open day. Get in your car and pop in that new cd. It should feel like poppin' champagne. Find a great drum break and bleed to the beat of the breakdown. Scene kids bleed in color.






...Ricky.
"Shameless" by: All Time Low