What Are You Gunna Do?
Throughout quarantine, I took advantage of the time and caught up on the original Jersey Shore episodes on Hulu. I know, very productive use of my time, right? In one of the episodes, Snooki does a real Snooki thing like spills her drink and falls or something along those Snooki lines. She collected herself and said in the most Jersey accent, “What are you gunna do?” She said it while laughing so I don’t think she meant it as deep as I ended up taking it. Regardless, I couldn’t get that saying out of my head. Mainly because I liked the way she said it with her accent and thought it was funny. I’ve been saying it in my head for months now and it’s helped me in a big way. I began to noticed that I’d say it even when something real adverse would happen.
All last week I was in a sling due to straining my shoulder blade muscle. I was doing the usual “me” thing, which is… I don’t know what actually, but it ended up with me getting hurt…again. I wasn’t able to work out, do yoga, write (hence the nonexistent post last week), or anything really besides lay on the couch with an ice pack freezing my back. I thought to myself, “what are you gunna do?” It made me laugh because the answer was “nothing” because I physically couldn’t.
Two nights ago my car was close to overheating and wouldn’t cool down until I turned it off for a bit. Then once I’d turn it on and drove even the slightest distance, boom! Instant heat. Luckily, my father came to the rescue with water to cool it down for the night and would use coolant later on. To my utter dismay, the radiator had broke and was leaking out any liquid my dad tried putting in my car to cool it off. In the end, I had to pay roughly $650 for towing and maintenance. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, mechanics are one of the top scammers of the world! (No offence if you’re a mechanic.) Before I had that bill handed over to me, I thought to myself, “what are you gunna do?” Of course in a Jersey accent. The answer was right under my nose. I couldn’t just throw the car away. I had to pay for the fix and there was nothing I could do about it. (Actually, if you are a mechanic, take offence!)
I could go on with countless times I’ve been dealt a bad hand and Snooki’s drunken words helped me. In the end, all that matters is what are you going to do? When we are faced with adversity, our feelings take control and we instantly become angry or upset. We become narcissistic thinking, “why me?” And believe that no one else in the entire world is going through something lousy as well. Bad things happen, but the answer is so simple, yet we make it into this huge deal and so complex that it feels unsolvable. To answer this question, what are you gunna do, there is 1 correct choice of the 2 that will make everything align and help dealing with the situation that much easier. (Jersey Shore pun intended) Option 1: You can’t do anything because you either A) Physically can’t or B) You did everything you could already. With this option, you carry on because why stress about something you have no control over? Option 2: Do something. Problem+Doing something to fix it= Poof! Problem gone and goodbye, worries. You either have the control on a situation or you don’t. Either way, there is no reason to ever fret.
