Memoirs of Middles💕 - Tape #38

The Good Place and me

Hi everyone. Todays tape is a yellow one. Yellow happens to be my favorite color and the Good Place is my fave show. Now I got the recommendation of the Good Place when I was still in university. I had just finished “New Girl” that I thought was great and needed another one to keep the high spirits. I went to google the show I had just finished and Google recommended the Good Place to me and brethren I didn’t know I was about to hit the best thing I’ve ever seen.

A little back story. The Good place is about what happens to us when we die. We watch four human beings form a connection that not even death can mess with. They learn how to be better people together and for the right reasons. It has philosophy and good jokes, pop culture and deep questions but most importantly it has characters I can see myself in. Eleanor Shellstrop is me in ways I don’t even want to voice. The most important thing to know about Eleanor is that she’s a bad person. Hold this.

Since this year started I remember even telling you in the last tape of last year that I was going to start being more human. I didn’t know you guys freaked out so much, and got lazy, and just couldn’t get things done. Sometimes you’re not sure, you don’t need to stretch yourself, you take up space. The one that’s been hardest for me to accept though? You guys fuck up sometimes. I did a bad thing recently. I hurt someone and despite us being just acquaintances, it stings to have hurt someone. I know the rudiments of not rushing people’s forgiveness to appease yourself so skip past that. I had to sit with a lot of things this week and one of them was “why do I hate when I mess up so much” “why is it so soul wrenching for me to confront my mistakes” well I found the answer and I journaled about it but it brought me to the point I remembered why I love the Good Place.

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Eleanor was by a myriad of ramifications, a bad person by her actions, thoughts etc but she still somehow was worth everything. Why? Because she was human and we all are. Owning up to mistakes is better than any self righteous bull we can pull. Doesn’t fix it but it reduces it happening in future. That particular kind of mistake.

Also, Love was very wonderful in this show. Meet Chidi. A man Who gets a stomach ache when he wants to pick ice cream flavors. His indecisive nature cost him so much. However, as a moral philosopher he concluded his findings in this way. “There are no answers. But, Eleanor is the answer”. I’ll leave you to cheese on that one. Love isn’t something we get in return for being worthy of it. Nah. Infact in its true nature, love isn’t given to deserving people. It’s given to broken people. There are a lot of layers to this, I’m always up for a discussion so please feel free to write me. The love Eleanor and Chidi shared transcended everything. Phenomenal. I picked up something about them. Their love was even in anticipation. One time just before he sneezed, she handed him a tissue. (Inserts shaking head laughter). I’ve been thinking about a fiery love for a while. My last encounter with it, how it feels to know that decades after, everyone will know someone happened to you, love touched you. I’m currently watching Ted Lasso. It’s climbing up my fave shows ladder fast because it has football and underdogs. In Ted Lasso, someone told another; “You deserve to be with someone who makes you feel like you were struck by lightening”. Reminds me of Andrea’s Boom “You better be Lightening” that I also got just this week. Good lord I love when the universe is echoing something to me. AWhen someone is loved, there’s something I’m calling “The watering”. This is a person watering the ground and echoing to everything that cares to listen and bare witness of the love that is being given so the earth treats those they love with extra kindness. Love is that commanding, that respected. The watering principe involves sewing seeds of love into the universe so your beloved can reap them. “This person is loved by so so hence we must honor them”

Remarkable stuff Chidi and Eleanor showed me truly. Well readers, the good place has changed my life once again and this time I thought to share since I’m on the journey of becoming more human or as Pinocchio would say; “a real boy!”