Another whinging LJ post

[babysimon]

I'm bored. And frustrated. If I go out every night, after a few days I want to scream. If I don't, I get bored quickly. That's too much like a tightrope for my taste. Today I'm on the bored side. And I know I haven't got much to complain about - practically everyone I know has a harder life than me. So now I feel bored, frustrated *and* guilty.

Comments

[trishpiglet.livejournal.com]

We all differ in how much stimulation/rest we need and the pattern it follows that suits us best. You're someone who likes quite a lot to be happening - and there's major advantages to that, you get things done and get started on things you want to do quickly (and you prod me to get things done, for which I am very grateful). I hope your tightrope widens over time though, into something that's more comfortable for you to stand on.

practically everyone I know has a harder life than me.
I don't agree. Not meant as criticism of any other people, but when there is difficult stuff in your life you get in there and get it sorted as quickly as you can and as best you can - you don't give it time to roam bleakly around your head causing depression-inducing damage. You've had fairly major crap to deal with over the years, and recently, but you don't dwell on bad things once they're over and so I think they go out of your head.

Don't know if any of that is useful but I'll see you tomorrow and try to be useful in person.

xxxxxxx

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

And I know I haven't got much to complain about - practically everyone I know has a harder life than me.

I know what you mean, but if you take this sort of thinking too far you end up feeling you have to be starving to death or in a Turkish jail or something before you can whinge. We just can't live by absolute standards of badness. I think it's OK to have a whinge without trying to meet some sort of "badness bar"...

[please-sir.livejournal.com]

Agree totally. Maybe theres a lot of other people with worse problems than you at the moment, but basically its not a competition. If you're feeling shitty, you have every right to say so. You dont even need a reason.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

I don't!

Hope you feel better soon.


J

[booklectica]

practically everyone I know has a harder life than me

Not me! I have a four-day weekend and two cats... :)

(though you do earn almost triple my salary... hmm.)