Seriously Grumpy Bear.
You live on clouds.
You live on clouds in a land of rainbows and smiling stars.
You live on clouds in a land of rainbows and smiling stars with a colony of happy cuddly bears who love you and still the attitude.
What HAPPENED to you? Not enough snuggles from Grams Bear? Hard time hibernating? Bummed you didn’t get the wish star tummy stamp?
Maybe you need to spend some time thinking about people who are truly suffering and start appreciating how good you have it. And by “people” I mean “donkeys”. More specifically Eeyore.
Now THERE’S a fella with some poor luck. Nothing to be happy about there. As if just being a donkey weren’t enough…let’s rub salt in the wound by making him the saddest most unlucky donkey you ever did see. He was stripped of whatever masculinity he had when that giant pink bow was tied to the end of his tail. A tail, mind you, that happens to be NAILED to his BUTT.
Black clouds follow him everywhere. He has no home. Every time he tries to BUILD himself a home it falls down. He’s always alone, gets hardly any air time on a cartoon filled with “friends” who never ask him what’s wrong or offer any kind of helping hand whatsoever. Nobody offers him a place to stay. Nobody takes time to ask him if everything is okay. Nobody is ever there for him at all. Talk about someone who’d give up everything to live in a land of clouds and rainbows. And by “everything” I mean “nothing” because let’s face it. Eeyore has nothing to trade in for that kind of pad.
I think it’s time to turn that frown upside down Mr. Grump-A-Lot and think up a better name for yourself.
Wishing you happiness and inner peace.
Mama Kat
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I love Grumpy Bear. He conveys the message that sometimes it’s okay to be a pissy bitch, and I find that validating.
I always wanted a Grumpy Bear (back in the Carebear craze of ‘85). My next choices were Cheer Bear, the one with the hearts, or Bedtime Bear. but which one did I get? Friendship Bear. Yay-freaking-rah. I was bummed.
And yeah, Eeyore needs meds.
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Love those Care Bears!
Great prompts this week.
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I read your letter going, “Yeah, Grumpy, YEAH! You think YOUR life is hard?! Look at Eyeore! Yeah!” Righteous anger at a cartoon character. Awesome.
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Eeyore always drives me crazy. There’s already so much whining going around my house I don’t need to read it in a book or give my kids an example of how to perfect it.
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Mama Kat Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
It’s funny, when I was young I LOVED Eeyore. I wanted to collect all Eeyore things. I thought he was so sweet. Now as an adult I just want to slap him. He brings in the thousand acre forest down. So pessimistic…someone pass Eeyore the happy pills. ;)
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I feel lame, but I don’t remember commenting today! I loved the letter. Poor Eyeore. Haha.
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This is absolutely hilarious. I almost shot a pea from my nose I laughed so hard!
Love it!!
Kelli @ SustainingCreativity
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Oh c’mon now, his friends help him out. Don’t you remember when he had no presents at Christmas and they all rallied around to rebuild his shack and leave him great presents?
You do bring up a good point about the bow though…. Poor Eyore.
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you are so funny
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Way to show Eeyore some love, MK. I heart Eeyore.
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Hahaha… that made me laugh so much! Thanks!
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I’m late. I’m slow. And I am a slow learner and posted about parenting. I just didn’t know I had learned so much!
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I never got into Care Bears, just like I never got into the Smurfs either (something about too cute cartoons that wigs me out).
Don’t know if you ever read the Tau of Pooh or the Te of Piglet, but one of them talks about the Eeyore Effect. Anybody who walks around thinking that the world is all gloom and doom is just like Eeyore.
I just hope that grumpy gets the hint,
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This was great!!! Poor Eyeore. I always felt bad for him.
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This was such a good post! I always thought I was weird because Tigger and Eyeore both were my favorite cartoon characters. I guess they’re just meant to show that it’s okay to show you’re upset from time to time. Now the cartoon character that drives me crazy is Deigo. I mean what type of parents send their kid out into the jungle to rescue wild animals, with a baby jaguar as a pet?!
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This made me laugh out loud…..you are so clever. You really brought some serious issues to my attention, like why is Eeyore’s tail NAILED to his BUTT….that’s just unfortunate and wrong on so man levels…..
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That’s hilarious! My oldest grandson has earned the title of our little Eeoyre. Seems like he’s always unhappy, things are always unfair or he’s always bored or not liking what the other people want to do. I really try to love him and sometimes he’s a really cute boy, but I just don’t know how to deal with all that gloom & doom. I have them for a whole week this summer – either we’ll be able to snap him out of it once he’s away from his overprotective Mom, or it will be a total disaster. Wish me luck!
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