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I'm so tired. (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I'm doing well. I have a good life. But holy shit, I'm so tired. The world is so terrible and I'm just fed up. I wish I could just check out and take a break, but it keeps going. Cheers.

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[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago

This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:

  • Does this thought pop into people's heads? yeah, probably
  • Is it lighthearted? Not really, but its friendly.
  • Is it clever? No
  • Is it true? Yes
[-] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 110 points 6 months ago

Exist out of spite. The terrors persist, but so do I.

[-] hihi24522@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Thanks, idk if op needed this but I did

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

At this point I'm convinced that the terrors are persisting out of spite for me, personally.

[-] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Welp terror gonna terror, i guess. Hence the existing out of spite!

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

Ooh, I like this. Thanks!

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I like this. Let's do it.

[-] CptHacke@lemm.ee 68 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Take a week. Avoid any social media, news, etc. as much as you possibly can. Try to get out in nature by going for short walks and just focus on doing things you enjoy (or try something new). Yes, the world keeps going - but you need to recharge your batteries, my friend. Take. A. Break.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 6 months ago

This is the way.

[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 66 points 6 months ago

You’re not alone.

[-] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I'm with you dude (virtual hug)

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you.

[-] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He hears the silence howling

Catches angels as they fall

And the all-time winner

Has got him by the balls

Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible

Open at page one

I said, God, he stole the handle and,

The train it won't stop goin'

No way to slow down

No way to slow down

No way to slow down

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

I've never heard this song, but it can be sung to the tune of Folsom prison

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Mind blown

[-] eestileib 4 points 6 months ago

Nice deep cut

[-] hactar42@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

A couple of years back I fell asleep at like 8 PM and slept through to 6:30 AM. Then I fell back asleep around 8 or 9 and slept until noon. When I woke up I didn't feel tired at all. This had been the first time I felt like that in I don't know how long

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

I was only awake for nine hours of yesterday and it was great.

[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.

Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.

It's also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.

[-] Occultist0178@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I'm tired boss

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Same, fellow human, same.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

That's just the impending clinical depression creeping in.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

Nah, I've had many depressive bouts (bi-polar). This is more like I've given up on the world post-Trump-2. I'm checked out to avoid the depression. One could argue this is still pre-depression, and I wouldn't argue back. But it's not yet depression. I note that you said creeping… I'm distinguishing between them.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

yeah, I know what you mean.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

We're all scared, it's the human condition. Why do you thinks I put on this tough guy facade? Now, beat it!

[-] Zero22xx 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Omg twinsies except for the doing well and having a good life part.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Me too bruh

[-] medem@lemmy.wtf 9 points 6 months ago

Burnout.

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

My dream is to one day become that wise old person you climb a mountain top to visit and to have them bestow wisdom upon. You're not alone, friend. But, taking breaks, even if it's as short as watching a funny movie, reading a good book, or sitting in a park with some coffee or tea. Pouring out a cup as it's being filled , even it's a little bit, will stop it from overflowing.

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It's all by design. I try to keep it only in my peripheral and I stay far away from Uber Socials.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

"I have a good life[...] The world is so terrible" screams "I engage with social media toxic to my mental health" to me but my context of your existence is 3 sentences so...

Take that as advice or criticism but the world has never been perfect and certainly will never be as close to perfect as the funnel of negativity online echo chambers and recommendation algos can be

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

If you have a good life, and you're fine with loads of your neighbors not having a good life, you're a psychopath.

I promise you, if you're American, there are people struggling to find their next meal less than a fifteen minute drive from your door.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

The only social media that I use is Lemmy. True that I've self-selected news and politics (among other topics), so I see a lot of Trump2 bullshit. I no longer read the articles to protect my mental health. I read the headline and maybe skim the beginning before I move on.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, sometimes that's all it takes, especially when not diluted by opposing viewpoints, but let me--without any knowledge of the specific contents--take a crack at countering the negativity bias of those narratives:

  • 30% of the global energy generation comes from renewable now

  • Social media is bringing the demand for better public transit to a fever pitch

  • Trump 1 has a lot of news sources careful to investigate claims before platforming whatever a US president says because "who would abuse that power?" (anecdotal and European bias here but many of these outlets are accessible online for free)

  • America may finally be joining the modern world with HSR between Canada HSR, that California project and the one connecting LA to Vegas (some rumblings about importing the Shinkansen to connect the Texas Triangle, too)

If these sound relevant to what you're used to seeing, I'd recommend asking yourself if any of the communities can acknowledge improvement, in other words: if you're following a (hypothetical) community called "Don't Kick Puppies" because who wouldn't support that cause, well not only did you just sign up for a stream of puppy kicking content but one moderated by somebody invested in convincing people the issue is a pressing concern regardless of what the data indicate

[-] Angelusz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Hello darkness my old friend, I have come to speak with you again..

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago

Same

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was never one to analyze dreams but I thought it was comical a couple weeks ago I told someone I have repetitive dreams where I am just hanging out in an empty parking garage at night. Just grey cement, don't really know what floor it's on, not the bottom, not the top. Throwing a ball around with a couple people I don't know or can't even see. The ball rolls down the ramps when someone doesn't catch it and we spend most of our time running back down to fetch them. At no point in time am I ever trying to change what's going on, the conversations are just blurs of nothing worth noting. Yet I still don't want the dream to end and have to get up so I keep pushing it forward.

Not till they mentioned that interprets to feeling worried/ stressed, stuck, and unmotivated did I ever consider, well yeah... Of course that's what that means. I haven't had that dream since, but it was comical to take something I was blatantly ignoring and putting words to it.

Not saying any of it has real merit, just conversing

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Are you eating enough fibre?

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

I consume a pound of hickory every day, is that enough?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Eat a pound of flesh too

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Relevant song: https://youtu.be/jDceI1yiwbc

And from the same artist, something that I try to keep in mind: https://youtu.be/u4pjTV1pyGE

Wish I had some clever anecdote that helped. All I can do is summit as many mountains as I can until the air is unbreathable and do my best to force myself to take the long way down.

[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Why have I never heard of this artist/group? This is like DJ Shadow and Del the Funky Homosapien did a collaboration, and I mean that in the best possible way.

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

E&A are legit, for sure. One of the best lyricists.

Some unfortunate news, though... Eyedea died in his sleep in 2010. The 3 albums we have are all we'll get. We lost a good one.

[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Define doing well, and good life? How much free time do you have? How does your work/life balance stack up?

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Wrong sub, but I agree with you wholeheartedly Every single word of it.

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