I'm in my mid 50s and can certainly relate to what you say about the news. I listen to NPR sometimes and it's interesting stuff but I do have to be mindful that it's not the final word on anything.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 8:03 amHi Gary, welcome back, I see you have managed to find your way through the torrential downpour of (mental maze grazing) to reach me again.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 1:15 am So DAMe (I said that in Bogart style), how was your day? I had a very good day today. It's still a little touch and go, however, because often when I have a good day like this it's building up into a manic episode culminating in me being almost catatonic while scared to death of conspiracies and paranoia.
Dame I am, but I'm no Damsel in distress.
Glad to hear you had a good day. I have good and bad days. Days when life just flows like honey on the lips, and then days when life is such a dull drag, not boring, but just kinda dull. But I am always keeping myself busy. I'm in my early 60's so could pop me clogs any day now...so always try to seize the day as if it was my last.
I never get too stressed out when my day is a cloudy one because I know the following day will be a whole new chapter that never fails to surprise me just how different we can feel from one day to the next.
Yeah, and I relate to the conspiracies and paranoia...I also understand that catatonic feeling, I get that often, where I'm just like ''wtf'' and fall into a completely motionless swoon, like a deer caught in headlights yep, I can relate to that one alright!
I like to follow the news, but will never take any of it as gospel...I only listen and then make up my own mind about what's trending and whether it's actually making sense or it's just more of the usual BS propagander.
Thanks for popping in, chat anytime, I'm always here, I'm retired now, living alone, which is what I call my heaven. I always thought heaven was a place not of this earth, but I was wrong, it's always right here co-habiting with her husband in blissful wed-lock ( metaphorical joke ) I used to think solitude was just for losers and loners. I guess that's me in a nutshell then!
Talk about anything you like on this thread Gary, I'm up for it. See ya!
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I guess like anything else, solitude has its advantages and disadvantages. I read a quip from Michel de Montaigne once where he spoke of how marriage is like being birds in a cage. The birds on the outside of the cage are all looking to get in and the birds on the inside are all wanting to get out. Kind of a funny quote I thought. I'm sure it's true (with regard to those inside the cage).
I've always been on the outside of the cage and never inside it. Sometimes when I see a beautiful woman, I think I would love to be caged with her. It looks so much like heaven to me. But I guess it's probably not as wonderful as it may seem from the outside. I've spent all my life looking for someone special to be with. I thought I had found her when I met a certain woman about a year ago. But like every other time when I thought I had found someone special for me, I fucked up the whole thing with my depression, social ineptitude, and lack of experience. I still have feelings for her.
And that's my "executive summary." You really don't have to pay too much attention to anything else I write after that unless you're NOT an exectutive and actually want to know what's going on at the micro-level. Otherwise, I'm agnostic and apolitical. One day my opinion might be one thing and the next day I'm leaning toward the opposite side of the fence. What I try to stay true to is humanity. I guess that makes me a "humanist" instead of a "theist". A "theist" is true to God, a "humanist" is true to all of humanity (or at least tries to be). However, unfortunately, I fuck up a lot as a humanist, mostly due to lack of knowledge or awareness. I think most of us want to do the right thing. We're all just confused about what the right thing is. I think the Bible says, you cannot serve two masters. A person is either true to God or true to something or someone else. Or maybe I'm mostly just true to woman. I don't know. I get confused a lot.