good morning
Good morning
That's how I normally start off my first fediverse post for the day. In fact, there's a good morning hashtag I attach to it too, as there is a group of regular good morning posters.
Actually, I've only just realised that I use the hashtag but don't follow it (you can follow hashtags on Mastodon, as well as individual people). I don't know what this makes me. A user, not a consumer? I'm riding on the bandwagon of #GoodMorning followers for free, giving nothing back. Telling my #GoodMorning tales to tag followers and not taking an interest in others that are using it. Oops.
I will have addressed this failing by the time I've finished writing this post.
Anyway, the main reason I like to start my first post off with a cheery Good morning is that it sets a positive tone about the day in my head to start off with.
But you have to do it in bold type in your head. It's no good just whispering out a barely audible good morning, and hoping you don't notice how miserable your brain sounds to yourself, let alone to readers.
Good Morning
Like that. Possibly with an imagined big grin attached to it too. Maybe think a 'Roger Moore doing James Bond' type of thing. No need for the eyebrow, but you can do it if you want of course.
Optionally, you could add an exclamation mark to yours, if you're a loud and demonstrative sort, but as explained here https://skryblans.com/subtle-humour/, I'm not generally one for spurious exclamation marks. Cool, deadpan, and possibly sardonic is my vibe.
NB: Do NOT, whatever you do, start your morning by reading the news before you do a good morning post.
Nothing will induce a barely audible good morning – if not a grudging and depressed sounding one – like a brain weighed down by 'the news' already. Save reading any news until after a good morning. In fact, preferably until after a whole good day. Mark my words, nothing good ever comes of thinking you know things.
Generally my post will start with a brief weather report. It's sunny. It's cloudy. It's hot. There's a hurricane. That sort of thing.
I post that because, being in the UK (and being sat at my desktop PC in my office which has a window looking out over the skies and front garden just centimetres from my left shoulder) it is likely to be a completely different opening to however I started my good morning post yesterday.
It wouldn't do to be posting what I'm having for breakfast every morning, because as a person liking my routines, that very rarely changes at all. A bowl of muesli (75g... yes, I weigh it) with a dessert spoon of natural yoghurt on it, and a glug of oat milk. Every day.
Sample post: "Good morning. I am having my breakfast of 75g of muesli, with a dessert spoon of natural yoghurt on it, and a glug of oat milk..."
Every day? You see, very boring.
Sample posts with weather:
"Good morning. The skies are heavy and dark, grey clouds passing over at about 100mph, and it is so windy a sheep has just flown by..."
And the next day:
"Good morning. The sun is already emitting its radiation angrily at the world outside my window and I wouldn't be surprised if it has all turned into a Saharan desert by dinner time..."
Much more interesting.
So I post about the weather. Then I add something that I hope will be positive about my day, or something that has actually happened. Something I'm looking forward to doing. Some work to do in the garden, an anticipated woodland walk, or perhaps something J is doing because I don't really do much.
Anything that is real, optimistic, or hopeful, and isn't weighed down by any media-driven gloom to start off with.
Yes, the day may actually turn out to be completely different to how I imagined it might be. It may turn out that it's an MS-hit day that causes me be a bit wobbly, fragile, and fatigued, and I may sleep through the day and miss most of it.
But at least I've started it positively, thinking about the good stuff, maybe making plans and hoping for any activity that a good health day might allow.
I'm not spreading any alarming pessimism to start the day for readers. Hopefully, reading a genuine good morning post starts their day with a smile too.
And of course, with the Fediverse being worldwide, following the #GoodMorning tag will let me read numerous hopeful and real life posts as the sun rises in different parts of the world all day.
post link for sharing: https://skryblans.com/good-morning
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