Not OP, but that’s a nope from me. I’ve been trying to break into up jogging, so I’m nowhere near “too fit”. Not getting that runner’s high during or after any of these sessions. I mostly just feel like I’m dying both during and afterward. Any small positive effect I get from it is being able to check off the boxes in the app I’m using lol.
Look, man. I just mean that if you’re advocating for an alternative, a nearly equally shitty one isn’t necessarily the way to go lol
Look, I get that there are other alternatives than Hungry Man dinners…but idk that your comment is it. Imagine eating canned soup everyday. That sucks too.
We only have so much time on this earth. Why not enjoy the little things? Even if technically it’s garbage. The important thing is to just not go too wild with it.
Yeah that’s what has always gotten me through things as well…knowing that there will always be some sort of a change. Sometimes it’s a good change and sometimes it’s a bad change, but it will change. It’s gotten me through some really low periods knowing that it won’t be like that forever. I just actually very recently dug my way out of a low period that lasted longer than I would have liked, and I’m doing ok at the moment! But I know at any moment, things could change back. But it’s ok. It’s just part of the constant changes of life.
I will say what personally helps me is to always be distracted. I’ve heard some people call this unhealthy, but I disagree. Rumination is the root of my issues, personally. And living in the moment is the best way to happiness. Obviously, you don’t want to go absolutely nuts with it and just have hookers and blow 24/7. Living in the moment does not have to be self destructive.
So when I’m able to be distracted by simple things like a cheerful conversation, it really helps. Right now, I’m filling my extra time with a TV show that I’ve gotten into. So I am able to spend most of my time thinking about and being distracted with that. Rumination is the worst.
Yeah I’m going through a stressful period of time at work and so I’ve decided to try and pick up running. I hate running. It’s literal torture and I’m exhausted afterwards. And my feet hurt! I don’t know how people are insane enough to like this. So now I get stress at work and torture outside of it lol. And I’ve skipped days and I feel bad about it (shooting for 3 or 4 days per week with a couch to 5k apps).
The only saving grace with running with me me so far are two things…
Actually, you might be wrong at that front. I remember seeing a mini documentary years back about a man who was continually orgasming for years (I think maybe he had some sort of spinal or brain injury or something). He described it as both painful and embarrassing.
I have never seen this before and I love it
It was doable back in the day, especially if nuclear plant workers make as much as the OP says.
My family was exactly like the Simpsons in terms of what we could afford growing up and who was working. Although my dad worked in an auto factory as opposed to a nuclear plant. He was first a line worker but then managed to be trained to repair machinery.
In the year 2024, it’s hard to fathom how that was at all possible to do, but times were different back then. I will say, I’m fairly certain that my parents were also in a ton of debt when I was growing up. It’s just that they used to give loans to everyone (hence the housing market crash in around 2009 or whenever it was).
Idk I guess at least it seems pretty quick???
At any rate, I think I’ll stay above water personally.
What country and type of job are you in?
Also, why did you feel valid in throwing an object at a customer? That would be an immediate dismissal at most jobs where I’m from. It sounds like your coworkers are shitty, but you don’t have to be shitty too.
To be fair, the lighting conditions are way more flattering in the first pic. When you have even lighting all over your front, it minimizes wrinkles. The second pic seems like it was taken in the evening with only one light source (or a few…but it seems like maybe an overhead porch light), making wrinkles and such far more prominent.
Or you could be having too large of a meal!
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something…how do you park or get out of a parking space if your car can’t reverse?
What? These things have been around long before zoomers.
Yeah same. The only think I’d care about is if they left some sort of biohazard situation and decided not to clean up afterward. But I don’t think that happens.
Maybe getting a murder house could snag you a bit of a discount if you pretend you believe in that crap tho!
Weirdly, I’ll do the first two points from time to time. But for me, it’s not depression. It’s just that I don’t like video games anymore even though I did as a child. Occasionally I’ll try playing one to hope to get back into it, but it never really pans out. Video games are just too much like work to me, but it’s such an easy and relatively inexpensive “hobby” to pick up that I try it now and then. Never really ends up panning out but such is life.
Interesting that you were downvoted for this. Another commenter above mentioned it and didn’t seem to get downvoted. I’m pretty ignorant of this substance. Would anyone care to elaborate in as scientific of a way possible on what this is and has the potential to do?