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Adventures in Pity Partying

by Kate Hurley  
6/23/2015 / Christian Living


Today we will talk about pity parties. I have been the event planner for quite a few of these festivities, so I can talk about them with some expertise.

Okay, I'll stop being modest and just and say it: I am pretty much the Martha Stewart of pity parties

Here are some of my pity party planning tips:

1) Come depressed. Your goal should be to obsess about how crappy your life is, and to have your guests comfort you as you talk about how crappy your life is.

2) Be selective about who you invite. Don't include people who will say things like "get over yourself"or "it's time to move on." They will ruin everything.

3) Wear the proper outfit. This usually includes glasses, pajamas, and rabbit slippers.

4) Plan your menu! I like to have potato chips as my appetizer, Ben and Jerry's as the main course, and maybe another kind of Ben and Jerry's for dessert. An assortment of deep fried foods works great for side dishes. If you want to get especially fancy, add garnishes of marshmallows and tootsie rolls.

5) Mood music is very important! I have a mix tape labeled Kate's Songs That Allow Her To Wallow In The Depths Of Despair.

This tape contains such classics as:

"All By Myself"- made popular by our mentor, Bridget Jones.

"Against All Odds"by Phil Collins- you cannot get a more apt song for a pity party than one that contains phrases like "How can you just walk away from me?" "Theres nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face," and "I wish I could make you turn around, turn around and see me cry." Classic.

"Baby Got Back: by Sir Mixalot- Wait, how did that get on here?

6) Plan some really fun games! My favorites are "Pin the Tail On the X-Boyfriend" and "The Pinata That Looks Remarkably Like Someone I Used To Kiss."

7) Make sure to light lots of candles. If the pity party goes really well, you and your guests can burn love notes and pictures as the finale of your shindig.

8) If you want to provide party favors, I can hook you up with some nice pity party T-Shirts. I have soft gray ones that you can wear to bed, hot pink ones with sparkles for when you go out with the girls that come in sets of three, and light blue ones that have "Pity Party" written on them very subtly that are especially nice to wear to church. I also have pity party mugs and pity party signature kleenex.

Follow these tips, and you too can have a great (read: pathetic and soul draining) pity party!

In all seriousness, the reason I am such an expert in this area is that I have thrown many pity parties in this season. I am getting older. I don't have a lot of years left to have biological children. It has been on my mind all the time, and my patient friends (including you, dear readers) have had to endure a lot of conversations about it. I have been walking around saying "how could this be my life?"

This week, the darkness of this season grew to a crescendo when my long time counselor challenged me to really examine what I would do if I never got married and didn't have biological children. How would I go about rearranging my life if my only choice to have a child was to adopt? She also asked me if I thought that my life would be valuable if I never had a traditional family. It was almost impossible for me to say yes.

I have been devastated for days. At the same time, though, I am recognizing how much these thoughts have been consuming me lately. I haven't been sleeping very well. My mind has been mulling over my difficult childhood, wondering if that contributed to people not falling in love with me. I have been bitter towards x-boyfriends for rejecting me. I have been doubting God's goodness and even existence because he was not given this deep desire. In other words, I have been trying to blame anyone I can for my pain.

This difficult counseling session helped purge this deep sadness in me, and also made me realize that I am spiritually "hung over" and exhausted from the pity parties I have been throwing. I have had the mantra "denial and bitterness, denial and bitterness, denial and bitterness" pounding in my head, and it is stealing away my life.

So this week, I have tried to fill my mind with different thoughts. I have literally repeated the words: "acceptance and gratefulness, acceptance and gratefulness, acceptance and gratefulness" in order to replace the other hopeless words.

Someone asked me the other day "if you were to lose everything you haven't been thankful for this month, what would you have left?" This really humbled me. I realized that I have been focusing so much on everything I don't have, and missing what I do have.

I realize now that pity parties are okay every once in a while because they allow me to express my pain, but parties that celebrate my life are the ones I should throw on a more regular basis.

***You can reach me through www.katehurley.com. Just hit the contact button.

Kate Hurley is a writer, worship leader, and teacher. She writes the popular blog The Sexy Celibate and wrote a book called Cupid is a Procrastinator: Making Sense of the Unexpected Single Life. The mission statement of her life is "To paint an accurate picture of a passionate God."

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