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Post lockdown life

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It's only really been about 2 months since everything in my life has gone back to complete pre lockdown levels. I feel myself struggling with the pace of life and expectation again. I'm more aware of what makes me tick now, since I got my diagnosis during peak lockdown. It just feels like a run away train which won't stop and despite restrictions,  I prefered lockdown life, it was easier.

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  • I think this is a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

    I enjoyed the first two weeks of home detention (way back in April 2021). I felt a certain amount of comfort in being confined to my home, but that's because I have a home, and it's quite comfortable with a nice garden, my health was good—and I was financially well off. I'm also used to spending a lot of time by myself with my hobbies so that keep me busy and fulfilled.

    Sadly, not everyone had the same privilleges as I have.  For me, it felt a little holiday. And who doesn't like a holiday, right?

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕
    ☕Tassimo ☕ said:
    I think this is a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

    Can you elaborate?

    If life was more evened out,we wouldn't feel a need for a holiday. 

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Yes, I can.

    Depriving the entire population of the world the basic human freedom to leave their homes, meet with other human beings, visit their dying relatives, attend the celebrations of loved ones, exercise their right to earn a living, receive basic health care... that is the very large sledgehammer... leading a balanced, healthier life is the nutshell.

    Peace begins within, not without. No matter how many times humans have tried to restructure their outward world (usually involving committing grave injustices against one another and unspeakable atrocities along the way), none of the have succeeded.

    There is no problem out there that didn't or does't emanate from inside us; our experience of the world is merely our collective psychosis as a race reflected back at us. 

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    Yes, I can.

    Depriving the entire population of the world the basic human freedom to leave their homes, meet with other human beings, visit their dying relatives, attend the celebrations of loved ones, exercise their right to earn a living, receive basic health care... that is the very large sledgehammer... leading a balanced, healthier life is the nutshell.

    Peace begins within, not without. No matter how many times humans have tried to restructure their outward world (usually involving committing grave injustices against one another and unspeakable atrocities along the way), none of the have succeeded.

    There is no problem out there that didn't or does't emanate from inside us; our experience of the world is merely our collective psychosis as a race reflected back at us. 

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