Kristine Joy, Writer

To Whom It May Concern and FWIW,*

• Upon learning of the organization, Leaders, Believers and Achievers, I need to know why I wasn’t extended an invitation; thought I was one / all of those things. 🤔🤷‍♀️

• While playing tennis, I needed not to have left the ball from my netted first serve on the court BECAUSE….my opponent’s return HIT THE NET and then HIT THE BALL.

Wow, I’ve hit a ball that was left in the court a number of times and had more than my fair share of net cords, but I’ve NEVER DONE OR SEEN THAT IN MY LIFE!

– Last Friday’s Opponent (who didn’t need the luck because he was absolutely demolishing me to the point that I had previously said, “Seems the only way that I can win a point is to call that ball out and it wasn’t.”

• I needed not to have been assigned THIS second floor hotel room number (and not be provided an explanation for the ladder!): 😳

• I may or may not have needed for all of the following to happen (the chaos and stress (at times) was a bit much, but my work shifts seemed to ✈️ by AND I got some writing material out of it):

ALL IN A HOLIDAY WEEKEND
(while working the desk at a golf course)

– A golfer meant to make a reservation for(e) 2 at 10:20, but it was in our system as 1 and a group of 3 had already reserved the other 3 slots. We were ahead of schedule and thus, attempted to accommodate by squeezing in a 10:21 tee time such that these 5 golfers could split (FOR THERE IS AN UNDERSTANDABLE STRICT POLICY ON GROUPS OF 5). Apparently, the squeeze time posted online. To make an already long story as short as possible, we ended up with TWO MORE groups of 3 in the Clubhouse arguing with each other about which of them had the (wasn’t supposed to exist) 10:21 tee time and in total, 4 groups (3, 3, 3 and 2) for 1 tee time.

– A father adamantly, irately and repeatedly told 3 different course employees that his son (a 5th person in the group / rider only) was NOT playing whilst the group behind them repeatedly told us that he was.

– I made more Bloody Marys in two hours than I did in 3 months.

– We didn’t know it was a prank call, but a call came in:
Caller: We just finished hole 6 and our cart died. Can someone bring a cart out. We’ll walk to 7.
Me: Absolutely. We’ll send someone right out to 6/7.
(we actually sent a cart out 😖 and if you don’t get it, ask a member of Gen Alpha)

– One of my fellow employees happened to be golfing the course with friends and informed a patron that he needed to put his shirt back on. The gent retorted, “DO YOU WORK HERE?” 😂

• I needed to have come across this passage in The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles:
  • “If I learned anything in the war, it’s that the point of utter abandonment – that moment at which you realize no one will be coming to your aid, not even your Maker – is the very moment in which you may discover the strength required to carry on. The Good Lord does not call you to your feet with hymns from the cherubim and Gabriel blowing his horn. He calls you to your feet by making you feel ALONE and FORGOTTEN. For only when you have see that you are TRULY forsaken will you embrace the fact that what happens next rests in your hands, and your hands alone.”

• I needed to have overheard this joke because THE WORDSMITH IN ME HAD NEVER WONDERED THIS BEFORE but not because of the fact that it shamed (insert name of a State / occupants of said State):

Jokester: Did you know that the toothbrush was invented in (insert State)?

Me: No, ok.

Jokester: Yeah, otherwise it would have been called a teethbrush.

• I need not always be the trimmer when painting with another (in this case, my Dad) because I cover 10% of the wall in 90% of the time.

• I need not be a walking menstrual cycle (the heaviest I’ve ever experienced and every 3 weeks). #perimenopause
  • Nor, live the fluctuations in hormones that go along with this way of life.
  • If I needed to name the phase, I’d call it Two Weeks and a Cry (as opposed to Two Truths and a Lie).

• I need to keep these posts to 6-7 “needs” and a 6-7 minute read in total because “the general trend shows a decreasing human attention span (AI Overview)” and well, 6-7 seems good sense these days.

I appreciate your readership. I need the validation as writer; if there is a like or heart icon for you to depress, I’d most appreciate the support!

Sincerely,

K.J. Sculling

* The content is presented as “needs”, and some of them may front a harsh reality that evoke strong emotions. Others are expressed in pure jest to entertain myself (and maybe you?!?). Ultimately, the notion that we all live in a more idyllic world is at the core and not actual need. Life can be tough; regardless of your own circumstances, please keep up the fight because life can also be grand! The idea of ‘I Need…’ stemmed from my thought process while sitting at a red light listening to the song, Alright by Darius Rucker, on the radio (you can read the original ‘Idealist’ post here and all ‘Idealist’ posts here). If you’re inspired to submit your own ‘Idealist’ “needs” for future reader write-in posts, I’d love to hear from you via this form.