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What do your days consist of?

A=BCD

What does your average day look like?

My perfect happy routine was shattered and I’ve not been able to find a new routine since. I no longer have the luxury of going out for a drive, something I did, regularish. At home I try to busy myself but normally I’ll do the same thing each day which isn’t a lot.

Days consist of,

Cooking, reading, looking through pictures, listening to music and cleaning. I will occasionally go shopping normally now on a Saturday when I get my drink. I have thought of volunteering but I lack the courage to do it and I don’t have the ambition since being on my own.

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  • After 24 years working for the same company, I have been made redundant. Needless to say the change in routine is freaking me out. When I started at 28 yo I was masking to the extreme, gradually I got into a position where I could work up to 75 hours a week and I was a one man department. I was around people, but I could escape to my own part of the factory when I wanted. It was perfect. Now I realise that work was a band-aid. Now I see how empty my life is. Now it's another chapter doing, I don't know what.

    Be safe

  • in reply to Violetfred

    I’ve been at the same company for 25 years and also joined at 28 years old and can very much identify with your comment about work being a band aid.

    I hope that redundancy may actually be a huge opportunity for you to build a better life. 

  • in reply to A

    It's nice not to feel so alone in that. I didn't need to work as many hours as I did, but it covered up the fact that all I had to go home to, was an empty house and no social life. Being around people is no substitute for socialising with them. When you cant do the latter, you have to make do with the former.

    Good luck on your journey.

  • in reply to Violetfred
    Violetfred said:
    Being around people is no substitute for socialising with them. When you cant do the latter, you have to make do with the former.

    Agreed.....whether you want to socialise or not, I still reckon its pretty important to stay regularly around a few other humans.....I think it keeps us balanced, whether we like it or not?

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  • in reply to Violetfred
    Violetfred said:
    Being around people is no substitute for socialising with them. When you cant do the latter, you have to make do with the former.

    Agreed.....whether you want to socialise or not, I still reckon its pretty important to stay regularly around a few other humans.....I think it keeps us balanced, whether we like it or not?

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