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Agreed. Also, this one gets me every time:I find that a little "Mmmbop" by Hanson does wonders for my mental wellbeing.
I cannot muster up the mojo to workout alone in the garage anymore. I was going 7 days a week, sometimes more than once but all I want to do now is walk or hike. I've been doing some big hikes alone that are cool. I found a gym that's actually open that's doing sparring so I'm going to go check that out.You guys are crazy.
So a gathering of peers.
I’ve been training in the garage going for endorphin release. I’m getting tired of kicking and punching things that don’t hit back. Lifting heavy things. In my dingy garage. Projects I could do are sitting untouched. Working out until I drop and then day drinking as I NetFlick is getting old. Trying Head Space. I find it difficult. I’ll just go ahead and say it. What I really want is either empty waves in the sun or sedation. I can’t get the former it seems. The later I can get with a phone call. But I’m being good.
I have no financial problems. My Father seems to be rallying on hospice care. Liquid morphine. My taxes should be done tomorrow. No doubt I’ll have to cut the Gov a healthy check. Things could definitely be worse, but I’m just bleh. Mildly depressed. Groundhogs day. Over and over...
The kids are suffering. BadYep, much the same for me. More fit and flexible than ever, surfing better than ever, but the isolation has been pretty gnarly on me. I worked from home until last week, and I was starting to believe the fvcked up things my wife passive-aggressively accuses me of. Got feeling pretty hopeless and even surfing was just an escape and not really a balm.
Then, went back to work and things got better in that sense at least.
I'm noticing that I'm flipping on a dime emotionally, but I'm trying to be kind to myself. Managing home life/conflict/parenting is just fvcking exhausting and I think I'm doing a damn fine job of being patient and nice, all things considered.
Granted, in order to not just fvcking crack I'm basically micro-dosing THC all the time.
I also got the best music gig (not ongoing) I've ever had and I'm kinda on cloud nine from that. Who knows how I'll feel once that airs and it's over.
I am pretty worried about my daughter though. She's doing all the typical turning-into-a-teenager stuff (which is natural and I can handle just fine), but after 3 months of doing really well at home she seems to have lost interest in everything. She was really excited about entering Jr. high, and without that to look forward to she seems kinda lost. It's sad to see and I'm doing my best to be there for her.
Well if cleaning the house makes you feel better you are welcome to clean mine once a week also. Heck, I'll even pay you and buy you lunch. Just tryin' to help a brother out. Wednesdays work good for me.I know something is up because every Tuesday I clean my entire house and I find myself looking forward to it every week. Might even add a second day of the week I clean the entire house. Put my headphones on and clean every inch.
This is called "depression." Groundhog Day is causing depression.Today I didn’t do sh!t. Moved a bed at my fathers house, went and got a gain/loss statement from Merrill Lynch, took that to my accountant and then did... nothing. I just didn’t have it. I feel like crap for not doing anything, but today I felt like crap when I woke up. In the mornings lately I have little motivation to get out of bed. Another groundhogs day. I need to get back in the water consistently. I’ve even lost my motivation for that. Not good at my age.
To some yes.This whole thread is another example of the casualties we are causing by this short-sighted approach to fighting this "pandemic"
Is it worth destroying this many lives to get rid of Trump?
This whole thread is another example of the casualties we are causing by this short-sighted approach to fighting this "pandemic"
Is it worth destroying this many lives to save the lives of others?
I cannot muster up the mojo to workout alone in the garage anymore. I was going 7 days a week, sometimes more than once but all I want to do now is walk or hike. I've been doing some big hikes alone that are cool. I found a gym that's actually open that's doing sparring so I'm going to go check that out.
Humans are social. Social distancing is not good for us, but the biggest problem is that even if we try to avoid all the depressing news we're going to hear about it because this is the biggest world event in years.
Yeah, well, nobody seems to really GAF.The kids are suffering. Bad
I kinda have the same perspective.I've been having a different experience than some of you.
Life before this was groundhogs day. Every day, same shlt, marching forward towards the eventual death that waits for us all. Sometimes it got hard to answer "why?"
I've rarely felt more aware of each passing day, consistently, than since the first day that the government took away our ability to be together. I appreciate the aware, awake, feeling. Life is like camping at the moment. There could be bears, or methheads (hi oregon) out there.
You wake up today, you just don't know. Maybe there will be a massive riot, a revolt against a government, maybe we're taking over a Costco with a group of friends and defending it in survival mode?
Probably not. Realistically, the only difference in life as I ACTUALLY experience it around me(other than whether or not I am allowed to run a business, minor detail) is that a lot of people are afraid, or upset, and most entirely because of things they've seen on TV (living in place where the virus has simply not caused the damage that i'm told it has elsewhere, at all)
Every day I poke into the news to see what new thing is illegal. Turn on ESPN to hear why everything I'd like to see happen is evil and careless of me.
It makes me feel like a thing that exists, in a sea of "maybe, maybe not". I am real, if nothing else is. Being temporary becomes easier to cope with
They’re in pots in an organic house mix our trusted local garden shop hooked up, not planted In the sand underneath our slabWhat did you do to help fix the salty sandy soil you must have?