Mitzy's Micro Essays

A step by step guide on how to sort of live by someone who looks nothing like this:


Number 10.
When you don't know what to do, do everything.

Number 9.
Remind yourself at least four times a day that a parallel You will be having an absolutely splendid time in a parallel universe where everyone behaves splendidly.

Number 8.
This isn't helping, is it? Have a drink.

Number 7.
Remind yourself six times a day that a parallel You will be having a catastrophically bogus time in a parallel universe where everyone behaves (hard as it is to believe) even more bogusly than they do in this not-utterly-splendid-yet-not-entirely-bogus universe.

Number 6.
Better? Good. Have another, better drink.

Number 5.
When you have a moral, social or ethical dilemma and are at a loss for what to do, remember that even the worthiest and most excellent of women and men have -

Number 4.
When witnessing or observing immoral, criminal or wrongful behaviour, you may want to try subscribing to the philosophical tract of -

Number 3.
Upon an occasion where you are finding it incomprehensible why a certain person did a certain something, stand firm in the knowledge that human inconstancy is -

Number 2.
Sorry. I am Mitzy, not Montaigne. I can't even count forwards.

Number1.
When you do know what to, do it splendidly.

Number 0.
Tell me how you did it.