I MEAN REALLY

Have you no soul????  No heart???  No compassion????

Of course you don’t.  You’re just a puzzle.  So there!

“YOU” are the Connections puzzle from the New York Times.  Every day you show up and every day I get out my pencil and give you my very best shot.

And every day, you evaluate my puzzle-bilities and find them wanting.

Just when I think I did a really good job on what I, personally deemed to be a really tough puzzle, you tell me it was rated “Easy” or “Very Easy!”  And here I thought I’d done a good job.  You really know how to bring a person down a notch or two. Fast.

Occasionally, I do fairly well on a puzzle you’ve rated as “difficult.”  You offer me no praise but I take it anyway.  Desperate times, etc, etc.

Those small but infrequent successes keep me coming back. Over and over again. I’m a bit like a madwoman who knows better but can’t stop trying to please her very own demons. 

But, bring it on . I’m ready for anything you send my way.   I’ll just drown my sorrows and angst by petting the kitty cat.  That always works.

Ah. If only everything could be that simple.