The funk
29 Oct
Many many many of the people around me are living low these days, sleeping and drinking and stress eating and generally feeling withdrawn and weird about life as a whole. It’s weird; I enjoyed a string of fairly happy days late last week (due, mostly, to the brisk fall weather) but I’ll be honest, I’ve spent most of my time lately in bed, sleeping more than a person could ever need to, and feeling guilty about my lack of movement and the amount of shit I have shoveled into my mouth in the meantime. I suspect we’re all suffering from election fatigue, economy fatigue, potential layoff fatigue, and other fairly daunting existential crises that seem to surround us at all times. I don’t know. That’s all I can say lately, actually: “I don’t know.” It’s my go-to phrase. I should at least mix it up. “No se.”
I want to fix things for everybody. And for myself. But I don’t know how.
I don’t know.
I’m with you on all of the fatigue. I hope someone fixes this shit soon. In the meantime, I guess we’ll just have to keep our chins up and all those cliches.
It is weird how fucking rampant these feelings are right now.
call it overwhelmed, here. basic frustrations about lack of time, money, the general state of things, etc seem to build and boil up and if i’m not careful i spazz or start to crumble a little but usually if i take a deep breath and bear down on the task at hand things usually come off pretty well. i don’t know though, over the years i guess i’ve just become the type to just turn up the pressure when things start to go awry instead of just eating something and taking a nap, like i probably should. am i rambling?
i don’t know, either.
I’m with you there. Nice pic and words.
Mike
i think a lot of it is seasonal. days are getting shorter and colder. it’s going to get darker before it gets lighter.
plus, on days like today, there’s a 30 degree temperature swing. that will mess anybody up.
it’s the reason we need fun social things like Halloween and Thanksgiving to give us things to do so we aren’t all depressed all winter long.
Dude, I am there with you. October is my favorite month of the year, but this weekend all I could do was sleep, and I think my love affair with fall is turning into my narcolepsy during winter.
The cold this morning was a nice wake-up call, but I feel like I need something to jolt me out of this complacency-with-boredom feeling I’ve had the last week or two.
Man, I feel ya too. I just wanna sit at home and drink/eat. Love the pic, where did you take that?
Get out there and tear you off a chunk of life! L-I-V-E-L-I-V-E-L-I-V-E-L-I-V-E………………….L-I-V-E.
Go team go.
I borrow shit from ‘Harold & Maude.’
Well … I just came off a really weird, stressful two weeks the other day. Got to sleep in, then hang out with friends for an afternoon. Discovered I love mah-jongg! Got to hang out all today with a friend I was keeping at arm’s length during the two-weeks-stress and had a good time. Then I get to sleep in tomorrow. And then I get a couple of days with not much going on. I might even get around to some much needed apartment cleaning! :-)
So, I’m feelin’ pretty relaxed and happy right now.
I hope your happy times come back soon.
i’m with you there. i just feel bland lately. not really bad or overwhelmed, just boring. i don’t feel like i have anything relevant to say. all i feel qualified to do is eat and sleep.
how soon the wonders of october fade… sigh.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all hibernate until this crap is over?
What you and they all said, much better than I could.
Although I will note that, for some reason, the current AT&T cell phone commercial airing on local radio with Bootsy Collins has helped me a great deal. (Speaking of funk. Or, more accurately, FONK.) Every time he cries, “It’s BOOTSY, baby!” I just about run off the road, but in a good way.
So there’s that. It’s BOOTSY, baby!
My aunt mentioned the other day that she wonders if part of our malaise has to do with the leaves turning so late here in MidTenn. We hadn’t even gotten a good frost until this week, and this traditionally is is the last good weekend for leaf-peeping. (You recall that it usually rains Halloween weekend and knocks what leaves are left off.) But no, this time, everything’s still greeeeeeeeeeeeeen and getting kind of dead-looking and it’s just “tiring,” she said. “I want it to shut up and be fall and quit honking around.” (I love my aunt.)
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