It’s Giving Skibidi Energy
One of my favorite hobbies over the last couple of decades has been to learn and use slang of younger generations. An old guy using words that don’t belong to his generation usually elicits a wonderful combination of eye roll, annoyance, and mild amusement. The mild amusement is reflexive, and a younger listener that hears me use “their” words doesn’t want be amused, but they are. And that’s fun to watch. Try it out sometime!
Today’s word of the day: Skibidi. I like this word because it’s fun to say. Not as much fun as guacamole. Especially if you say it like, “guacaMOLE.” But it’s still fun. It’s also fun because, based on my age, I’m really not allowed to say it. My peers don’t know what it means, and the younger generation is gatekeeping it almost to the point I think I might owe them a phrase tax for saying it.
Skibidi doesn’t really have a meaning, so it can mean whatever the user wants. There’s an interesting wiki article on the word, obviously lacking citations. So, for the purposes of this post, “skibidi” means bad.
Bad Energy. I’m around a lot of it. I wonder how it affects you? I wonder if you know how it affects you? I wonder if you know it’s contagious? The same is true for Good Energy.
Take a little inventory of the people in your life. Who you work with. Who you work for. The people in your house. Your family. Your neighbors. In can include your media consumption. What you watch and listen to. That’s your world. And you can divide your world into two groups: Good Energy and Bad Energy. Bad Energy is pessimistic, negative, judgmental, sour, hopeless, draining, stagnant. Good Energy is uplifting, positive, hopeful, optimistic, energetic.
So what’s your split? 50/50? 80/20? If you’re feeling hopeless, sad, stuck, you may want to look at this split and try to make some corrections in your energy diet.
How do you do that? This one is pretty simple. Less time with Bad Energy. More time with Good Energy. Sometimes this gets complicated when you work in a Bad Energy field or you have members of your household who have an abundance of Bad Energy. But the fix is fairly organic: Intentional placement around Good Energy.
My cats have good energy. My mentor, Banks Hudson, has good energy. Even though he has left the earth his energy is still with us. One thing I’m missing with him, I can no longer drink straight from the hose.
Aspen, the younger cat, has great energy! She asks for a nightly ride on my shoulders by jumping on the top of the chair and waiting for me to walk by so she can catch a ride. She settles in across my shoulders for a brief walk. I tolerate the claws in favor of the positive transfer of energy. She’s nothing if not an optimist.
Butters, the elder cat, also has great energy, despite her tendency to be petty at times. She’s a little butt hurt when Aspen takes her nightly shoulder ride. But with the green eyes, should we expect anything different?
Butters has her nightly routine as well. After I eat dinner she crawls up in my lap, faces away from me, and leans on my crossed leg. She gets back and head rubs and I get some good energy. Last night was particularly interesting. Aspen got her shoulder ride, two in fact, I ate dinner, and then Butters settled into her nightly lap routine. I have had more than my fair share of skibidi energy lately, and my tank was especially low yesterday. Even after the Cat Energy Transfer I was feeling out of sorts. Then Butters did something she never does: She turned around and faced me. Normally, always, she’s facing away from me. But last night, she turned and laid her head on my stomach and just looked at me. She settled into that spot and I started rubbing her head, right between her eyes, and she started to relax. And so did I. I think she knew I needed a little extra last night, and she knew how to deliver it.
I hope you find some Good Energy to be around today. I’ll be looking for some too.
