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Old 29-05-2023, 11:25 PM #1
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Default Most ‘frustratingly protracted’ period in your life

And by that I mean the one period of your life that essentially felt like one big waiting game (maybe you were just biding time waiting for a dose of serendipity to tick you into your best life, maybe you were being held up or back by others). What was the nature of it and how did you cope/not lose optimism and hope altogether?
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Serandipity is one of my favorite words. My world changed so much for the better. All I'm willing to admit is, it was political and it was an unplanned discovery that rocked my world.
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The best thing about those serendipity-lacking moments is the hope you get when things suddenly start to get better and those opportunities come directly to you. You obviously don’t want to get too gassed and put too much stick in the assurance of life actually being fair at the first sign of improvement because things change last-minute but sometimes hope is all a person needs to pull through and stick around for long enough to fully manifest their potential or dreams. I’d say internal principles are better at keeping those demoralising feelings of stagnation at bay when things aren’t manifesting positively in the external but the thing is I’m an extroverted feeler (as outwardly reserved as I am) so my moods mostly change with situations and the social milieux of environments. Today I might feel like I’m just muddling through and living an uninspiring outer life but tomorrow now I might get my dream job or win the lottery and so correspondingly be on top of cloud 9.
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I think covid sucked all my hope out of me


I was a man striving to be the best person I could be in honour of my sons name. I was achieving all my goals until covid along, then I was trapped and alone with my dark memories staring at me as I sat alone in my isolation at night after work. No walks, no little trips to take the mind away elsewhere for months on end, spreading into years as my mind slowly became accostomed to the isolation.

So I would go for the past 2 and a half years.
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I was a man striving to be the best person I could be in honour of my sons name. I was achieving all my goals until covid along, then I was trapped and alone with my dark memories staring at me as I sat alone in my isolation at night after work. No walks, no little trips to take the mind away elsewhere for months on end, spreading into years as my mind slowly became accostomed to the isolation.

So I would go for the past 2 and a half years.
These words.....they have touched my heart.
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I was a man striving to be the best person I could be in honour of my sons name. I was achieving all my goals until covid along, then I was trapped and alone with my dark memories staring at me as I sat alone in my isolation at night after work. No walks, no little trips to take the mind away elsewhere for months on end, spreading into years as my mind slowly became accostomed to the isolation.

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I was a man striving to be the best person I could be in honour of my sons name. I was achieving all my goals until covid along, then I was trapped and alone with my dark memories staring at me as I sat alone in my isolation at night after work. No walks, no little trips to take the mind away elsewhere for months on end, spreading into years as my mind slowly became accostomed to the isolation.

So I would go for the past 2 and a half years.
Covid affected so many and in so many ways, its kinda left me feeling like a non person and i can't get back to real life ever again and its not good.
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Covid affected so many and in so many ways, its kinda left me feeling like a non person and i can't get back to real life ever again and its not good.

Covid has screwed up the lives of millions one way or another


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Covid affected so many and in so many ways, its kinda left me feeling like a non person and i can't get back to real life ever again and its not good.
Yeah, I feel really detached from real life. I've been constantly wandering about in my own thoughts talking to myself in my own about minuscule things, even making a cuppa, Im talking myself throughnit in my own head.

It's not good, that is very true.

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Yeah, I feel really detached from real life. I've been constantly wandering about in my own thoughts talking to myself in my own about minuscule things, even making a cuppa, Im talking myself throughnit in my own head.

It's not good, that is very true.

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