Am I the only one who listens to podcasts while walking?
Nevrrmind, I skiped over jmakin’s post
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For me walking outside is a chance to disconnect from all things digital. I’m trying to reengage with the world, not disengage from it. So listening to music, podcasts, etc defeats the purpose.
On a treadmill though, yeah bring on the music.
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Yeah if only I could command my brain what to think about like that. It pretty much does whatever it wants.
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Yeah I was listening to NFL podcasts the whole time I was thinking about Trump, playing out scenarios over the next 4 years in my mind. Maybe I need to pick less mindless podcasts.
Wednesday I called in sick and smoked a joint and two cigarettes, but I threw away the rest of the pack and the other 3 prerolls I bought.
Back to work Thursday and Friday, no more smoking anything. Overeating big time though. Donuts and shit too. Got a dozen and finished it within like 36 hours lol
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I think I’ve said this before but for a little while but some years ago I considered moving to Melbourne and one of the main reasons I didn’t is that from my house I can go to pretty decent conservation parks in a 20 minute drive or so:
Now that I’m nearing 45 and don’t care so much about nightlife and whatnot, not having this is a dealbreaker for me. I think I would go a bit nuts in a city where I had to drive an hour plus to get into nature. If I move now it would be to Tasmania or New Zealand where there is even more opportunity for this.
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I have a lot of nature within about an hour drive. But everything is an hour drive in LA, so it doesn’t feel that far away.
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You have much cooler stuff within a few hours too, so that works. The problem with Adelaide is, the Adelaide Hills has some OK stuff for walking, but there is not much further away of much interest unless you want to drive 4.5 hours to the remote Flinders Ranges, or 6 hours to the Grampians in Victoria.
Meditation has helped me with this
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It is finding the balance between stuff interesting enough to take your mind off of Trump or anything else your spiraling about and about how much walking uphill sucks but no so interesting you spend an extra half hour at the trail head listening to it before getting started. You might try books you really liked but have read a few times before.
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36 whole hours? I thought they went stale after 12 but they’ve never lasted that long, that’s why I stopped buying them…
I can’t get meditation to work for me. What does work is pouring myself into something like writing a book. But that’s done now, so I have too much time with my thoughts right now.
I need to go back on the road and make content for a new book. I know that’s what I should do. But it means probably quitting my cushy, stress-free job where I work like 2 hours a day from home. And right now I’m too depressed about the world to get excited about driving through it. I wish I’d get laid off have someone else make the decision for me.
I think what will happen is I’ll just become more and more unhappy just marking time alone in my 1-bedroom apartment, and that will force me out.
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Are you hiring?
Yeah I need to find more engaging stuff. Mindless NFL chatter isn’t doing it.
That’s another big push/pull I have: reading or consuming stuff that challenges me to think, vs. bubble-gum pablum. I get infinitely more satisfaction out of the former. But I just get in ruts where I’m intellectually lazy and don’t want to break out of it.
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We might be if I quit. Are you a full-stack developer with AWS experience?
Note: you will have to work hard for a few years - until you get to where you’ve built a bunch of stuff and your value is that you can fix things in five minutes that would take someone else a week.
What I’m doing for my mental health is completely checking out. I don’t want to read,. listen, or watch any news and haven’t since the election. I’m going to become one of the lowest information people in existence. At some point if I notice a mushroom cloud or people speaking Russian, I’ll figure something must’ve happened. There’s just no way I’m subjecting myself to another 4 years of inane presidential babble
If there’s a resistance of some sort, I’m in. Just not sure how I’ll find out about it. Good luck to all! There are some good people here and I wish everyone the best thru what figures to be some very dark times. I truly don’t think people fully comprehend what they just voted for
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How the fuck can you even think about giving this up?
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i personally hate jobs like his
So, keep this one and just get another one. You’ve got plenty of time.
One other mental wellness tip that has worked wonders for me over the past eight years:
Leaving the country.
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