Are you getting tired of stuff happening.

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I just got off "Customer Service" from Target,com. I bought some car mats, and they sent them to a prior address, Now, why into the hell would you ship something to a prior address. Surprisingly, it went "veddy gud", I think they are sending them to my present address. But it dawned on me that if it's not one thing, it's another one that creeps up and bites you. You order car mats and it turns out to be a big production. Come on, we just had a pandemic, and as that's wanning, up pop[s the Ukraine situation Are you getting tired of stuff happening?
 

I think we're all on emotional overload lately. It seems like it's just one thing after another and it's getting harder to deal with it. Years ago, things that used to happen would just roll off our backs and we'd keep moving forward without giving it much thought. But now, it's getting to the point where some people just want to stick our head in the sand and hope it all goes away. Others are sick and tired of everything that's happening and want to yell out their windows, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore".

There's not much we can do about which way the winds of change blow, but maybe it would be helpful to remember the Serentity Prayer and turning off the news on TV.

If it makes you feel any better, you're not alone. I feel just like you.
 
No, but I'm getting tired of hearing about it.

For me, it's the constant barrage of gloom, doom, and despair over every little thing that happens in our daily lives.

The thing that I sometimes lose sight of is that I have nothing to complain about compared to millions and millions of people around the world who have real-life-crushing problems to deal with every day.

I'm blessed, but sometimes I forget to be thankful.
 

Aunt Bea said:
For me, it's the constant barrage of gloom, doom, and despair over every little thing that happens in our daily lives.


I'm blessed, but sometimes I forget to be thankful.
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Those two sentences, especially relatable.
Years ago a strategy i developed for coping with chronic depression was to search out good news. With the advent of the internet that became a lot easier. I subscribe to e-newsletters that focus on good news and acts of kindness. Also to basically neutral info--science things.

There were times since the new Millennium it faltered a bit, took bigger 'doses' as it were but it is still working and seems to be more effective again. So i keep using it.

Another strategy is maintaining an attitude of gratitude. Whenever i see something that gives my heart a little lift (neighbors' horses running for sheer pleasure of it, wild critters on our land, moon rising over eastern ridge and other night sky sights) i am grateful to be here, now. And those things happen daily, sometimes multiple things a day.
 
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In the modern world, we are much more aware of what is happening around the globe, not just in our own backyard. It can get very depressing, especially when there is little we can do.
I think our lives seem to go in cycles....sometimes we get periods when everything seems to go wrong....then the opposite happens. All we can do is ride things out and hope for the best.
 
I can relate personally to all the thoughts posted above, feeling worn down by the barrage, fearful, trying to find positives, appreciating what I do have, etc.
But I think another thing has arisen out of the pandemic: now that it appears to be waning, some people using it as an excuse to do sloppy work, not work at all, continually make excuses.
And our very own American Oligarchs going beyond the real supply shortages to Jack up prices and hold back available supplies to line their own pockets.
I realize that probably every person I cross paths with may have pandemic related worries of their own, but I I don’t like having become so cynical and mistrusting.
 
@fuzzybuddy everyone does at times, and some days it does seem to pile up more. Getting our news as straight forward, not slanted and dressed up as if they're trying to tell a movie or tv series plot to executives helps.

Remembering that most of it, even the rudeness and incompetence of some business people and workers is not personal, they didn't think to themselves "I am going fail the next customer miserably." They've been under the same pressures as all of us, sometimes more because the people with no authority over things have been overworked more than usual the last two years and they get yelled at for things they have no control over.

A third factor is that neither common sense nor common courtesy have been that common for at least the last half century. People constantly blame others, most often workers with no control over supply chains, prices, businesses' rules, or government ones or the weather, for problems they might of avoided if they used their phones or computers to check availability of things, thought to ask the right questions and actually listened to the replies instead of talking over the worker about things the worker doesn't need to know.

Everytime we have snow storms the motel my daughter manages gets walk-in guests who didn't bother to check the weather reports where they would be traveling, don't stop for lodging till it was dark or visibility was 50 ft or less and then are shocked when they can't get exactly the kind of a room they want, or any room at all in a tiny podunk town because guess what? They weren't the only ones who didn't bother to think ahead and utilize the great tech tools available to check things out.
 
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Oh, and the title of this thread brought back a memory from my youth that has me laughing at myself:

Age 26, estranged from DH#1, run into a good friend i hadn't seen in months who asks "What's new and exciting in your life, especially you love life." I tell him 'New job, new roommates but thankfully, because 'excitement' is vastly overrated, nothing is going on in my love life.'

I seriously felt that way not having a clue how exciting, complex and stressful things would get in that area of life in the coming decades.
 
Geezerette said:
I can relate personally to all the thoughts posted above, feeling worn down by the barrage, fearful, trying to find positives, appreciating what I do have, etc.
But I think another thing has arisen out of the pandemic: now that it appears to be waning, some people using it as an excuse to do sloppy work, not work at all, continually make excuses.
And our very own American Oligarchs going beyond the real supply shortages to Jack up prices and hold back available supplies to line their own pockets.
I realize that probably every person I cross paths with may have pandemic related worries of their own, but I I don’t like having become so cynical and mistrusting.
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What she said ^.
 
I think there has always been stuff happening. But, the pandemic has hit us extra hard on a personal level. That makes any additional problem seem worse.

This morning, our one year old tankless water heater died, naturally on a Saturday morning. So, probably no hot water until early next week. Bummer! But we'll survive.
 
Things have always happened and are still happening and will continue to happen. The problem is too many people watching the news on TV, on their phones and those darn social medias sites. Shut it off and get a life. I was reading yesterday about this senior couple, Don, aged 70 and his wife, Allison, aged 63 who have now been traveling around the world for the last 2 years. They have given the rest of us some good, free advice:

"Stop watching the news: it gives you a very negative view of the world."
 
Excess news is a waste of time and emotion. It's good to know what's going on in the world, as It can affect our decisions. But we don't need to see it over and over. I limit my exposure.

The real problem is if we internalize it. Bad things will happen, and it's not your fault. Sure, we care, but it's beyond our control. If you can accept that and just worry about things you can control, you'll sleep better. Stoicism 101.
 
Remember the great Gilda Radner? Her character, Rosanne Rosannadanna, would say,, "It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's the other."

She even wrote a book called It's Always Something. Funny lady, though there's not too much to laugh about these days.
 
I’m tired of the negative stuff happening all over the planet.

I’m tired of the ’same old same old’ happening in my daily personal life. I’m beyond tired of having to figure out what to fix for a meal.

I’m not tired of reading a good book. Or watching Spring start to creep in.
 
Covid-19 no control over the why or spread. Did what might be best for me & so far it has.
Russia attacking Ukraine. Same no control so I don't stress.

Prices again no control over the price but can control what is bought that isn't a need.

I do look for good & this was in post #1.
Surprisingly, it went "veddy gud",
dwelling on what there is no control over is a waste of time & emotion.
 
Sunny said:
Remember the great Gilda Radner? Her character, Rosanne Rosannadanna, would say,, "It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's the other."

She even wrote a book called It's Always Something. Funny lady, though there's not too much to laugh about these days.
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Oh yeah, truly one of the greats….just mention of her name makes me smile. Thx for prompting the memory!
 

Are you getting tired of stuff happening.​

I am more suspicious than anything else. It seems incomprehensible to me that these things are coincidences? I do like a good mystery though.
 
mrstime said:
Life happens, good, bad, one learns to roll with the punches.
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That's easy to say, @mrstime, but not so easy to do. My mother used to tell me that all the time and I never learned to roll.

This has been a difficult couple of years. First it was U.S. politics. Then Covid came along. Then a murder of a black man by a policeman in my city which led to riots and looting accross the country. Then an unprecedented insurrection in Washington D.C. . Add to that the fact that people were hoarding things like T.P. and paper goods. Some foods are scarce in the supermarkets now because of a lack of people to unload ships and drive trucks. WTH?

The worst thing is that more people are doing mean things to others without provocation.

I've probably forgotten a few problems because I'm starting to depress myself. But I have given up on trying to "roll with the punches."
 

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