Welcome to the new year! same as the old year As promised, I am resuming my daily shortforms :)
The last 4 or 5 days were simultaneously the worst and best days I’ve experienced in quite awhile.
Best: Hanging out with great friends on the 31st and 1st, this was fantastic, I had an amazing time. (yes, we all tested negative for COVID prior to deciding to hangout) | Having an emotional breakthrough realization
Worst: The descent into cripplingly bad depression from loneliness late on the 1st once I was alone again. Feeling shattered from isolation on the 2nd and 3rd. | Having an emotional breakthrough realization
Today was a better day, and I am acting on the emotional breakthrough realization I had, so things will be okay! Essentially, I previously could tolerate living alone, but something changed this year (hullo quarantine), and I can no longer tolerate that, so later this month I’m moving states to go live with family.
This meshes quite well with my goal of raising my happiness set point, because when living with others, even if there is drama my mood and general contentedness are noticeably better than when living alone. Furthermore, living with others seems to overall make me a more capable and productive person versus living alone. Now that I know these things about myself, I will arrange to live with others and try my best to not live alone again. The power of noticing!
Note: I’m aiming to move to Seattle sometime around May: if you’re doing similarly, let’s talk and see if we’re compatible as roommates.
My goal this week is to:
continue writing daily public shortforms
go outside and exercise for at least 30 minutes per day (I have recovered from the flu, yay)
spend an hour each day being virtually social, specifically: responding to messages
generally try to keep recovering from the last few days and try to keep feeling better
do more other stuff yet to be listed
I will be writing my 2021 Week 1 Review on Sunday the 10th, to be posted by 13:00 that day and it cannot count as that day’s shortform.
I am not mentioning certain things in this shortform that I mentioned in previous shortforms or the weekly review, because I am not yet operating at full capacity, but I will get there soon :)
While writing today’s shortform I listened to Caterina Barbieri’s album, Patterns of Consciousness ; this is a great writing or thinking or being pensive kind of album. Spotify | YouTube
Shortform #11
Welcome to the new year!
same as the old yearAs promised, I am resuming my daily shortforms :)The last 4 or 5 days were simultaneously the worst and best days I’ve experienced in quite awhile.
Best: Hanging out with great friends on the 31st and 1st, this was fantastic, I had an amazing time. (yes, we all tested negative for COVID prior to deciding to hangout) | Having an emotional breakthrough realization
Worst: The descent into cripplingly bad depression from loneliness late on the 1st once I was alone again. Feeling shattered from isolation on the 2nd and 3rd. | Having an emotional breakthrough realization
Today was a better day, and I am acting on the emotional breakthrough realization I had, so things will be okay! Essentially, I previously could tolerate living alone, but something changed this year (hullo quarantine), and I can no longer tolerate that, so later this month I’m moving states to go live with family.
This meshes quite well with my goal of raising my happiness set point, because when living with others, even if there is drama my mood and general contentedness are noticeably better than when living alone. Furthermore, living with others seems to overall make me a more capable and productive person versus living alone. Now that I know these things about myself, I will arrange to live with others and try my best to not live alone again. The power of noticing!
Note: I’m aiming to move to Seattle sometime around May: if you’re doing similarly, let’s talk and see if we’re compatible as roommates.
My goal this week is to:
continue writing daily public shortforms
go outside and exercise for at least 30 minutes per day (I have recovered from the flu, yay)
spend an hour each day being virtually social, specifically: responding to messages
generally try to keep recovering from the last few days and try to keep feeling better
do more other stuff yet to be listed
I will be writing my 2021 Week 1 Review on Sunday the 10th, to be posted by 13:00 that day and it cannot count as that day’s shortform.
I am not mentioning certain things in this shortform that I mentioned in previous shortforms or the weekly review, because I am not yet operating at full capacity, but I will get there soon :)
While writing today’s shortform I listened to Caterina Barbieri’s album, Patterns of Consciousness ; this is a great writing or thinking or being pensive kind of album. Spotify | YouTube
Good luck and be well!