Over the Flagpole

This is the new year.
I went over the flag pole in Mario Brothers. When you go over the flag pole, the whole world is turned upside-down and backwards. But the game was broken, or radioactive or something, because now MY world is backwards and upside-down. My truck, I can't steer it. Not with the steering wheel anyways, it controls the radio volume. But the radio volume knob steers the wheels now, and boy is that thing tweaky. Just about rolled the truck over when I figured that out. But it doesn't really matter, because when you get to where you're going, you've gotten to where you were. Try to go to work in the morning, and when I get there it's closing time yesterday. A futile exercise I gave up after a few tries. I'm not even sure if my mind works anymore, when I think of what I want, I don't know if it's what I really want, or what I don't want. It gets worse though. Because, there's this girl I like, but I can't tell her directly. And I think that she likes me too, but she's evasive, she makes up excuses. Her friends say that she likes me, and they tell her that I like her, but the more I want to be with her, the farther away I drift from her. And now she won't talk to me at all
Worse yet, my friends act like they like me when we're alone, but around others, they act like they hate me, they're rude and mean. But when we're alone again, we're best friends, like nothing ever happened.
And I'm angry for no reason. And things that used to make me happy make me sad. And things that used to make me sad make me happy. And I finally got what I always wanted, for years and years. And I hate it.

This is how it is in backwards world. A big fat lie is the truest truth you've ever heard, and even the simplest truths you always took for granted are subject to forces that are going to turn them into something other than truths. Maybe into just ideas, or songs, or potatoes. And the biggest, juciest lie I could ever tell you is jump over the flagpole. Because all you've got to lose is your life, and you got that for free.