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Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hi all.

I have made a new thread here. I need to do this to make it feel real and important or else it'll just be another comment I make on an already existing thread. There are many areas in my life where I feel like giving up. I don't really care how irrational it may sound. I don't care if it's silly. It's just how it is for me at the moment.

I've never been as good as what I am now (on paper) and I put that down to the supportive environment here on the forums.


But I am struggling again.

There are many things on my mind and in my life that are causing me to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew about family and friends. I need to review some things again.

I am also getting lazy around my physical health and diet. I eat a lot more rubbish and I've put on some weight (in the bad way). I used to be quite skinny but then I went to the gym and sorted that out. But lately I have had 0 motivation for exercise because I find it so boring. It's just really boring. I have no enjoyment in it anymore. I think I never really did, but I did it just to be healthy. Now I just don't care. I don't see any utility in doing it anymore.

I feel like giving up on dating. There are just too many fake people in the world and I am exhausted by it. I am also thinking that my lack of relationship in early 20s and late teens is a turn off for many girls my age. I'm trying to see the benefits in my situation but I don't believe there are any.

My sister's health is progressively getting worse. So is her social health. She is having fights with her friends. Mum babies her about a lot. It's not helping. Dad has given up I think. And he is also likely doing "things" behind my mum's back and she is turning a blind eye to it. I have no input on any of that so I simply have to sit by and watch it go down.

I hate my job but getting money is important. I had this conversation with my parents the other day. They seem to have the belief that I can get into something I want to do. I don't. I am trying to find the light and the way forward with that but I don't know how they can see it. I have a desire to go into journalism/writing. But that environment is so political and I don't think I'm able to "pick a side". My internship taught me how I can do it. But it's just such an effort. I don't know if I have the stamina to get there.

I think that's all I can think of for now. I am sitting here on my pc playing a videogame and waiting for food to arrive. I am worried I will just get worse if nothing is done. But that urgency seems small compared to anything else I can do.

In a nutshell - I am not well.

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@outlander @Shaz51 @Zoe7 @TAB @Bunniekins @BlueBay @Meowmy @Everan @Appleblossom @frog @eth @Gazza75 @Angels33 @Sophia1 @Faith-and-Hope @CheerBear
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Posting an update. Read at leisure.

Work is still going. I needed a rec day next Wednesday. I had to make an excuse that I was doing applications. The work environment is a bit shite. But it is what it is.

This covid thing looks like it'll get better in Australia and NZ before other places. I have been counting my blessings. I think many of us are. but I am also wary of Winter coming up soon so maybe they will hold off.

Time will tell hey.

Meanwhile life elsewhere goes on. What small part of it can anyway.

I am finding it hard to remain positive. But it's the small things that count. Having a chat to someone in a lift, talking to the barista. All these things. I do believe that we will find a cure to this disease. We won't find a cure to the people who are conspiracy theorists and paranoid. I have distanced myself from two people like that who were helping me with something. But not anymore.

Onwards and upwards I guess.

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@MDT It has been absolutely disgusting how some people have been treated in all this - especially the racism that has occurred in some parts of the country - makes me sick that kind of behaviour - grrr!

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Indeed @Zoe7

That and also the conspiracy theories that crop up with people thinking they know everything and make people fearful.

Then also the media turning it all into a tv show...

Hope you are okay down in tassie

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Yeah we are good down here - most of the cases have been in the North West @MDT but they seemed to have that contained too now.

I agree - I am getting a bit sick of seeing it on tv all the time too.

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small victories re barista etc its survival @MDT sounds good. Just dont let co workers see or know re attitude esp in govt where they love to pigeon hole fellow workers, best to keep up appearances, keep them guessing even

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especially when its isolated things that appear to have been done by people to create an impression re odd English usage in slogans . then they get shown over and over in media as some sort of truth

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@MDT

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Heya @MDT ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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Hi @MDT haven't chatted with you for a while. Good on you hanging in there at work. Sensible to have boundaries with some people. I totally agree about the little nice things being very meaningful in these times. So nice to hear you are still finding them sometimes.

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