I might ask this once in a blue moon, to update myself on how society is trucking along.
My speculations:
I’d imagine right now, it is very tight, very small friend circles getting together to relieve general boredom. I think a lot of people are in anticipation mode right now, for what I can only guess.
I try and catch the flies that fly in font of my bright 2003 monitor, this time of year there is lots of flies and I can’t catch them all.
Maybe I am not understanding your question, but I would think people get out of the house for school, work, shopping, going to the gym, social events, religious meetings, doctors visits, ect…
I think most people get out of the house to be social with friends/family not to relieve boredom. Just catching up and stuff.
Im going biking with some friends on saturday then a dinner with some others later.
That looked liked a totally different question when I wrote this. I’v been talking to my SZ (as well) sister, thats messed me up.
I thought about this as I started wanting to go walking and running more, I get uncomfortable going places and the thought of doing stuff without a clear purpose like not going to a store or something as most people do when they go out is odd. Then I thought randomly about the statement “the world is yours” and I thought about it a different way, you can go wherever you wanna go outside and do whatever you wanna do as long as it’s legal, I spend so much time not being outdoors latelys that it started to feel like I am not allowed to access it unless I have a pplace to go to and a purpose, if I wanna walk to random places, I can, even if I want to just find an open field and touch grass and take in fresh air by myself, walk through random parks and trails, absolutely anything reasonable I can do, there’s nothing preventing it. I used to spend more time outside than anywhere else when I was a kid with my friends, anything to get out the house and off the couch and away from the snacks would be beneficial
I’m admittedly a homebody and am not currently working or volunteering. These are some of the things I’ve been doing to get out the house:
Attend open access once a week in an NHS day centre
Eat out usually a table for 1
Food shopping at the supermarket
Simply go out for a walk
Daytime showings at the cinema
Evening theatre shows
Go down my mum’s or up to my dad’s
Cut the grass in the garden
Visit one of the towns
Put a little footy bet on in the bookmaker
Swimming at the leisure centre
Walk up the shop
Watching local football matches
Going down beech in the summer
Going out on my bike
Borrowing books from the library
I am not most people. I like doing stuff on my own a lot. I really love solo runs down the river.
Yeah i also do lots of solo adventures
Yeah, I feel the exact same way, I even use the phrase ‘this is my world’ recently, for the exact same reason.
When I am in pain, and I go out, I feel like I am somehow bothering other people with my presence, like I am somehow a sort of inconvenience to be in existence and simultaneously in their line of sight.
People are supposed to be nomadic, social and moving around, modern society is actually quite unnatural and inefficient to human development.
That is is what I mean, by your examples. I was curious if I was missing something with how things are, but I guess it is what it is. I don’t get out myself at all, so I wanted to know if things have changed or moved on the playing field.
The main thing I do to get out is walk the local park, which is literally starts at the end of my neighborhood road, so there is no excuse to not walk while the weather/humidity is pleasant.
I tend to think other people have more engaging lives (outside of mental illness), than my own life (the bar is near 0 there, not hard to overcome.) But I suppose people do what they can do, when they have the time to do it, as long as they appreciate it.
And by engaging I mean something like working towards a future vision, like normal civilizations tend to do. It seems the norm where I live is to jellyfish it out, wait for better times, as a sort of maladjusted strategy, or the alternative means of continued degeneracy. (Of course there are many exceptions, but in the general population that I witness.)
I think things will pick up quickly once the good times come, which could be some time from now. I am certainly not waiting around for that, however.
When I lived with my dad we’d go out every day to walk his dog.
I used to go to AA meetings.
I love a long walk by myself.
I never eat out because I have a swallowing problem.
I go to the library for things other than reading ( it’s too noisy there).
I go to the supermarket.
I have plenty of Drs appointments.
And continue…
I’m going to a zoo soon!
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