I really am trying to keep the posts down. Here are some science items I have been holding onto for a few days.
The new Mimaki 3D Printer can print 10 million colors in one model. The models look amazing and printing is becoming faster and more capable at a good but slow rate.
Lasers are in the news. The first one had scientists making their own solar flares with lasers to study how they work. The second had scientists controlling lightning using lasers and filament meta materials.
The last one is about Star Trek Phase II. The first movie was actually for a show where the crew worked on a revamped Enterprise. They couldn't get advertising, so it became a movie.
Science stuff is good, particularly as a (wannabe) scientist! 🥽🧬🧪
Positive stuff is also good. The negativity here gets pretty draining, after a while… So much so that I just “tap out”, when it becomes completely negative…
So yeah, as Smith said, thanks for this (stuff)!
I try to post something fun along with the gloom. Life moves on even in difficult times.
That’s good. I’m glad you do, honestly!
And yeah, it really does.
Honestly, I got so bogged down in the bad stuff last year that life largely moved on without me… And that eventually hit me like a ten tonne truck (to the point where I was barely hanging in there, for a while).
I don’t ever want that to happen again, difficult times or no.
It’s important to keep perspective, I think.
For the last few years I have been posting memes and jokes to help people get through hard times on my Facebook page. I have been thanked directly a few times for it.
Before I got married I watched the Pacific Northwest fall. It still has and had great things, but more and more problems happened. I couldn't get a good enough job, or do things I wanted. I ended up becoming a Cub Scout leader and putting my love of history and culture into it. Those kids still keep in contact with me even as they are graduating high school, and moving on to university. I may not get to move one as easily, but I helped them do it, and feel a wonderful joy from it.
Sorry for being such an Eeyore, here (and like, everywhere).
I’m just really struggling. Trying to turn it around, though. Biggest thing, I guess, is starting to forgive myself. Or trying to, at least.
Anyway, sounds like you do good stuff for your community, and I appreciate these posts.
Keep it up! I’m glad you are contributing something positive to the world. You should feel joy for moving them in that way. I’m glad you do. And yeah, thanks for listening. 🙂
Good egg. 👍🏻
Honestly, props to you for this.
I don’t have the excess energy to expend on that sort of stuff myself, right now, but hopefully I can again soon. Right now Facebook just makes me sad (the notion that people can refuse to lose touch, but then also not invite me to their wedding? I don’t really get that. Like, either be my friend or don’t, you know? That’s one thing, anyway…)
But anyway, keep doing what you do. I’m glad you’re helping people like that. Sounds like it means a lot to them. 🙂
Side note: this is one interesting thing about “the black dog” (although I would put this more down to anxiety):
I have to literally force myself not to retreat away from everyone and everything, again.
Like, even today, I thought, “Should I go to ground again, until I get my life more in order? At least then I won’t see the good things in other people’s lives that make me feel worse…” [wedding photos. It was wedding photos, for yet another wedding I was not invited to].
Never do that. Never let yourself get too comfortable absorbed in your own sad/fear. Because as you say, life moves on, whether we, as individuals, are there as part of it or not.
And things do not get better unless you force them to. They just don’t.
There’s my ten cents, lol.