They're prety ducky.
Why did you think people were down? Here and elsewhere. I would have asked sooner, but things had veered into positivity, and I was trying to dodge all the smiles.
I don’t want to point fingers or anything. Just been seeing a few posts about illness, general existential crises and whatnot. But like I said, it’s very much to do with me feeling down and subconsciously seeking that out/seeing that, I understand this much.
Stirchley mentioned volunteering the last time I was feeling this down. I do donate a lot and help mentor juniors in my industry, recently been strong-armed into giving guest lectures at the uni where I did my master’s. I could always do more, I guess, but I don’t think this is quite the answer.
I’m noticing something weird about how I must be perceiving the world at the moment, because I suddenly want to cry at pretty much any movie; and I haven’t cried in years, not at funerals, not under immense stress, it just doesn’t happen to me. Yet now I watch the most random movies/shows and feel like I want to cry. This is all somewhat bizarre and creepy. Recently, I have almost cried while watching
True Blood,
Outer Range,
The Leftovers (well, I guess this one is understandable).
I can’t really talk to anyone irl about this, not even my best friend. I’m due to see her on Tuesday, but I’m a very reticent person, and usually she ends up going on about her issues, while I listen. It’s funny — I really love her, and the last time I saw her a few weeks back, she sort of actively tried to rectify it, as in, ‘Let’s talk about you!’
However, I’m quite bad at this in-person socialising business. I don’t actually get any ‘relief’ from socialising, don’t feel better, ever, after doing it — I’m a classic introvert where I need to recover after seeing people. So it’s all been bloody exhausting lately.
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