You won’t find the title of this post in a dictionary, but when life is handing you nothing but a stale room reeking of fresh intestinal gas, or when the human beings around you are acting more like neanderthals, when you’re ready to throw in the towel or let off a little steam, it’s the word for you.
Take a moment and say it slowly.
Has it gotten to you yet? Yes? Good! No? Well then, what must you do to install lightbulbs?
Now that we’re clear, I’d like to encourage people to adapt this simple phrase and apply it liberally whenever necessary. When other countries pick on us because we don’t do things the same way as they? Scroom! When you leave a voice message and don’t get a callback? Scroom! When your friends think your new pair of shoes are, like, so yesterday? Scroom!
Really, how much value do we put on the wrong things, like other people’s opinions? If you’re doing the best with what you have and somebody else doesn’t like it, the heck with them. You did your part, and it’s now their problem.
Jot down “scroom” on a sticky note and keep it with you. Stick it on your computer monitor, or print it on a shirt. If you’re not doing anything illegal or immoral, and somebody else has a problem with it, don’t give in: just think to yourself, “Scroom!”
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