Published on 12, July, 2020
...all I want to do is go out and get a nice bottle or two of red wine.
Not to get bladdered. Not because my body is craving booze.
But just to get some relief from all the greed, selfishness, vanity, savagery, bigotry, trash and plain stupidity I can't help noticing all around me!
I don't need to make a list. It's everything from violence in Gaza and Derry, to desperate refugees being turned back out to sea by populist governments, to people leaving their crap everywhere, to pre-school kids of Generation Z with their heads stuck in their phones.
The human race is nuts. It's doomed.
I've found myself sleeping much more now. Over the weekend, I've napped at regular intervals. I've tried reading, but can't focus on it for long enough. Sleep gives me some reprieve. Death's second self.
I just want to escape.
"Accident black spot? These aren't accidents. People are throwing themselves into the road willingly to escape all this hideousness. Go ahead, darling! Throw yourself into the road!"
Withnail - 'Withnail and I'
(now I'll shut up and go hide again...)
This is an interesting Thread completely nothing to do with the Title so far...?
Glad Tidings, Mr.Tom (and Miss Daisy)... I delayed posting this upon your previous Thread, but I try to do so here. A common thing about "giving up" something ('kohol, drugs, whatever)... is that the something may be difficult to "give up" - unless some SUBSTITUTE is found for it. Meaning, that when that feeling occurs, something must fill it. Substitution is replacing something with something else - it may not be similar, but fills the "need"/replaces the "craving"... or whatever. I am trying to say that, if one has an unwanted need, then the need must be replaced with something else before it can be ignored completely. (The replacement can be tangible or intangible, it does not matter what - just so long as it fills the "need"!) ...
...I write this as a separate post, because it has nothing to do with the advice I just Posted and is not helpful...
...I am very sorry, but I cannot really help you much! If I were stuck in this way, for myself, GREAT relief would be found for me in having access to THE OCEAN. Swimming, diving, snorkelling... I would have no misery or sickness or need for "relief" at all...! However, as you say, you regularly dip in the sea, and so this is a perspective of which I have no concept. (!). Very sorry and Good Luck to you (both) anyway... :-) :-/