I feel like I should explain our usage of this word.
A few months ago, a few of my best friends and I decided that the word "shire", if we're speaking in an onomatopoeic sense, sounds like a knife in the heart. To us, it sounds like a representation of something either really embarrassing, or sad, or scary. So we use it when something in one of those categories happens and we can't think of any other way to describe it.
There are different categories of a shire. You can feel it for someone else when you're embarrassed for them.
You can feel it when you're really sad or embarrassed for yourself.
You can feel it when you have to go to the doctor's office or the dentist and you're feeling uneasy about it.
You can definitely feel it when you have to write 3 papers in one weekend or when you have a general lack of sleep.
I feel like lately, everything I remember doing is a shire.
At night, before I fall asleep, ALL I can do is picture every shire I have ever felt for myself.
I constantly feel embarrassed. I constantly wish to not have said this one thing, or done this one thing.
Am I ever going to figure out how to prevent doing and saying embarrassing things BEFORE I do them?
I honestly hope so.
Hopehopehope.
(I hope your day is not a shire.)
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I feel this way sometimes. The "my life is one entire shire" shire. it keeps you up sometimes. but no worrayz just think of trace cyrus and sheryl crow and remember what a shimmer you are in comparison.
ReplyDeletep.s. trace doesnt really count to us but in societal measurements he would be a shire.
that thought is actually so comforting. we could have been born sheryl crow or that girl in our history of rock class that sings everything. or BONO.
ReplyDeletehey! what's wrong with bono?!
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