Category: dark
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blacken your christmas
You know how this time of year people are like “Happy Holidays!”, “Merry Christmas!”, “Happy New Year!”? Well what if, in true socio fashion, you have someone you know (but don’t like) and you don’t wish them anything happy or merry? What do you say to them? Nothing? Unhappy Christmas? Merry Christmas to everyone but…
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don’t send tuna
Today is my mom’s birthday. She’s been gone a few years, maybe 6 or so, but I still like to think about her on her birthday. I still go to the cemetery, stone her and my dad and then send pics. (See “Everybody must get stoned” for context.) It a Jewish tradition thing. https://growuptobesocio.com/2025/06/15/everyone-must-get-stoned/ I…
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misery loves revenge
I think most people have heard the phrase, “misery loves company.” I know I have. Today I’d like to propose a new reimagined version, “Misery loves revenge”. What do you think? Can we work with it? I know I can in a very socio sort of way. Let me tell you about my thought process…
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dead to me box
I have a box. Not in the physical sense but in the emotional sense. I keep all my emotional baggage in it. If it was a real box, it might be giant-sized. It might take up a whole room or a whole house. But because, in true socio fashion, I prefer to hide my emotions,…
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signs of mad-ness
Today I want to talk about insanity as it relates to anger. Have you ever been in a situation when someone is so angry they go from mad to madness in an instant? Right in front of your eyes, in real time? What do you do? What can you say? How do you get out…
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everyone must get stoned
Anyone who got excited that we were going to talk about drugs, calm down. Yes, people will be getting stoned in today’s story but not in the traditional sort of way. My story of getting stoned is a bit darker and potentially creepy depending on how you feel about cemeteries. Remember this is the socio…
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love me or hate me
I am the kind of person that you either love or hate. There is no in-between. I am like liver and onions, I hate it, but my dad used to love it. One time, when I was a little socio, my parents made me eat a piece of liver. I couldn’t leave the table until…
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happy to be alone but sad
I was thinking this week about happiness and sadness. Emotions that are opposite on the feelings scale, can you be both at the same time? My socio soul is always happy to be alone. As an introverted socio, I recharge by spending time alone doing what I like to do, reading, thinking, listening to music,…
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evil don’t die quick
Although most people are familiar with the phrase, “only the good die young”, I want to talk about the flipside, more socio version of that phrase, “evil don’t die quick”. The phrase came to me a few years ago, from one of my kids. We had a situation, funny, no not really funny, but it…
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hell no
Being a self-proclaimed socio, most of my daily life is dark already. I usually wake up salty because I have to get out of my nice warm, soft bed. I have to tend to pets, let out dogs, feed cats and forage for food for all. Some days I wake up and just think HELL…
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i know i’m broken, don’t try to fix me
We all have our things, our story, our childhood trauma, that situation that makes us damaged humans. If you want, you can deny it but deep down there is something that makes you who are you and it might not be good. You don’t want to talk about it, not really. But if you do…
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bad news zoom call
I want to talk about bad news. Well, I don’t really want to talk about bad news, that’s the point. Bad things happen, good things happen, nothing happens. In any situation I am perfectly fine with my socio self, not sharing anything, good or bad with the rest of the world. It’s kind of my…
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big feelings and a secret back door
As a lifelong socio, I don’t like big feelings. I prefer to keep my feelings, big, small or otherwise, to myself. I am not a “wear my heart on my sleeve” kind of person. So, when I have a big feeling, I feel awkward and exposed. The only thing worse than having a big feeling…
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crawl back under that rock
Why is it that when something bad happens all the creepy crawlies come out to make the bad even badder? (Yes, I recognize that is not a real word, but it fits my socio mind!) You haven’t heard a word from them in days, months, years and yet they slither out of the dark hole…
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