This next window, my lovely Mortals, might be a tough pill to swallow.

After looking through a number of the social media profiles of the Class of 2005, it began to hit me hard as to where I stand today. So many of them have fully functioning lives, with families, and educations, and even careers. I can’t help but wonder what went wrong in my life as I gaze through the Bleak Window of Today.

As I look out this window, I see a vast sea filled with so many krakens. They are beckoning me to come join them. And out beyond that, there it is, the master of the krakens (the final eldritch horror and the very core of my depression). And it looks like me. It is me if I give myself fully to the monster within.

Things always seem so bleak in the world today. Just turn on the news and you’ll see many stories of violence and horror, of corrupt politicians vying for power, and of absolute hopelessness. It truly is a bleak view indeed.

On a more personal scale, I see my Today as troubled. I can’t seem to keep social relationships alive (romantic or platonic), I am employed at a dead-end job and I don’t have the academic backing to get anything above a minimum wage job (and there’s society making it perfectly clear that us minimum wagers aren’t good enough for the world), and I am an emotional mess (with depression and strong hints of other “undiagnosed” stuff). My personal world, like the world in general, is a bleak canvas.

One can go utterly insane just focusing on the now.

That is where window three comes into play…