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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I feel like there is one of those old timey lawyer scales in my head and I waffle between feeling positive and negative from day to day. The individual "weights" get added throughout the day. I have a happy marriage and three healthy kids, that's a positive weight. Oh no, one of the kids looks like he might have a medical condition, negative weight. My daughter loves soccer and is excelling at it, positive weight. Goddam air conditioner is going to cost me $5k, negative weight. The goes on with both minor and major things.
I actively try to think positively, but tbh, the Russia business and climate change really gets me anxious when I think of my kids' futures (and all kids' futures). I try reminding myself that the World is in a better place compared to any point in history, but the nagging thought of climate catastrophe and mad men with nukes sometimes tips the scale and bottoms out and it is tough to rebalance.
Sometimes shooting the #### on CP helps, like that ridiculous dog thread. Need more of those.
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Yeah, it has been a grind the past couple years. The covid rollercoaster wasn't that fun, either.
My big one is the hamster-on-a-wheel feeling of groundhog daying through the workday week in and week out. It's been frustrating lately. I wake up everyday and mutter to myself, 'are you fataing kidding me?' Slave away the best decades of our lives to squirrel away money that we'll:
A. Hopefully have enough to ride us through old age.
B. Not waste so much time saving only to die at like 57 with a pile of money in the bank for somebody else to enjoy.
Weed helps.