How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
Mine is nostalgia. That's literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days. It's not that I sit here everyday and never move on to newer things, I do sometimes embrace new things and realize there's more out there than what I have.
It's just, there's an online radio show I still listen to, to this day and it's episodes are like 17 years old and been out of syndication for a good long while now with no hope of returning. It's like my time capsule that opens up so much in my mind, so many memories, so many what-ifs to think about, bringing me back to where things were in that time period .etc
And it's something I just don't think I'll ever let go because as much as I've tried to find a place in this awfully trashed world, I'm always winding back at square one because either I'm incompatible or it is incompatible with me.
I just want to go back to the 2000s and do it all over again and meet who I know now just to see how things could've gone if we've all met earlier.
Sitting outside and listening to the birds. Growing plants. Taking my dog to the park.
Basically, disconnecting from humanity and enjoying the natural world.
26Hobbies, self-confidence, and selective apathy.
24Simple, short term pleasures, abandoning of long term plans, and taking comfort in the fact that I have not (and will not) bring children into this world.
24This is gonna sound silly, but feeding the local birds is really therapeutical. For the span of a moment it's not about you, it's about the simplicity of feeding an animal you don't know, that will likely not care if you come back. No strings attached.
I used to wonder why old people do that, now I get it. It just feels nice.
A word of advice though if you plan on doing that, look up what you should and should not feed wild animals. Bread is supposedly terrible for ducks. And crows will go crazy about peanuts. Funny to see them crack them open too.
21yes!! we've been tossing peanuts to the crows in our backyard lately.
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Videogames and copious amounts of THC
16This. Literally.
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Tacos
16Knowing that in every point in history people had major challenges.
16Appreciate the heck out of everything as we are not going in a good direction. Every walk. Every tree. Every breath of fresh air I take in and just enjoy. Heck I watch old stuff just because so much stuff is gated now and even if it wasn't I mostly don't like it. Enjoy good fresh foods. Enjoy having shelter and a comfortable climate. Enjoy your loved ones be they human, animal, or plant. Just appreciate what is good in life now for as long as you can.
11Alcohol and drugs. Lots of them.
10Cheers. 🍻
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Antidepressants
9By reading enough history to know that the world isn't decaying around me.
8I own a cat. She's a needy cuddler. It's enough, most days.
7Understanding that the world is not black and white and that today is the best day ever and most peaceful day ever for all of humanity so far. Yes the challenges seem steep but when you understand history, they don't seem as bad as what has happened in the past.
6Lots of escapism hobbies where I can immerse myself in a completely different world-- video games, comics, sci-fi and fantasy books and movies/shows.
6Keeping myself isolated.
6Tacos.
6I try to find things to do that are productive and help those who are hyper focused on the present due to their situation. Give blood. Volunteer. If that’s not something that interests you, find some courses to take, or some quick certification courses to take that align with your interests. You’ll never regret filling your spare time by helping others or learning a new skill.
5This is a big one, accept there are things we cannot control, like world events. Do what you can, like voting. (People, please vote), and national elections is absolutely important.
But what's even more important is local. It sounds boring, but voting in local elections, getting involved in local advocacy, learning your city council members, pressuring for local change. Those things matter and need your support, and your support can actually change things.
My personal anxiety is climate change. I can't change anything nationally except voting (in every election). What I can do is make my own house greener, be greener myself, and push my local government to be greener and push that we as a city/neighborhood will be greener. Planting more trees, consuming less fossil fuels. Nay-sayers love to say there's nothing individually that can be done, but we can change our local governments and change our own neighborhoods. Now, if everyone started doing that...
4I totally understand what you mean about global warming. Well said!
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What radio program?
I still listen to This Week in Tech which has been going since early 2000s.
4This is going to be hard to explain. So I'll just simply say - go look for a show called 2 Sense, all of the episodes are available on Internet Archive. It was a very niche show that was hosted by a furry named 2 The Ranting Gryphon.
This is an online radio show that predates a tiny bit before podcasting as a term and as a form of entertainment began to gain ground. I'll warn you that, yes some of the content on that show will not be what you'd expect. A lot of the content on that show will be politically incorrect. A lot of content on that show will come off as juvenile and immature at times, if not entire shows.
But this is the kind of show I listen to annually that just drives me back in time. Not because I particularly was in favor of the personalities of this show or anything. But it's the things they cover and talk about that I reflect on sometimes compared to where things are now in the world and society.
I wasn't even an active listener of this show until about 2008, towards the tail end of it's second run. And quite frankly, listening to those episodes are very unbearable to me now because the content from 2007-2008 of the episodes are very loose and it really became a soapbox for the primary host, 2 Gryphon, to start airing out his most raw takes on how he feels about certain groups of people.
2Love Leo! I’m on his mastodon server, although I don’t use it much.
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How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
If I can cope with Christopher Walken, commas, then I can cope, with anything.
4I play videogames or watch a random show or movies that I'm meaning to wach but when that doesn't work I cry in my bed
3How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
Decay is a constant. But so is renewal. If you remember that, then that gets you through your life experiences.
Mine is nostalgia. That’s literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days.
Nostalgia is great, especially in helping you remember the past. But you shouldn't focus exclusively on that, as then it just becomes a drug, and you become the monkey in the cage pushing the button over and over again for the next pellet of food.
3Write. Anything you like. Nonsense, the issues of the world, a memory, a story. Sometimes, things (thoughts/memories) hurt less when written. Then you can burn the paper. Or tear it. Or do nothing with it. But burning it feels so good. It's like burning your sad thoughts.
3I spend a lot of time in VR pretending to be in a completely different world that isn't so totally fucked up.
2Meditation. Buddhism.
1Booze.
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