How have you changed?
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Ballard was a copywriter first as was Hitchcock and de lillo
Simon silverdollarcircle
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i don't really care about hanging out with people anymore.
I felt the lack of human contact really powerfully in the first lockdown and felt like a caged animal. Really desperate to breach the walls and see people, life, stuff happening. Now I don't miss it really. I'm quite happy wandering around on my own looking at nature and listening to music on headphones. I'm not bothered about the pubs being shut or the fact that I haven't seen anymore play live music or play records for about 13 months now.
I'm fairly content but this is a shift that worries me.
I felt the lack of human contact really powerfully in the first lockdown and felt like a caged animal. Really desperate to breach the walls and see people, life, stuff happening. Now I don't miss it really. I'm quite happy wandering around on my own looking at nature and listening to music on headphones. I'm not bothered about the pubs being shut or the fact that I haven't seen anymore play live music or play records for about 13 months now.
I'm fairly content but this is a shift that worries me.
luka
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id like you to get into that.
sus
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Hey guys I just had an idea it's a little crazy but I think it will work
JACK wants to be an important figure in artistic and literary history, but feels he doesn't have what it takes to write poems or paint paintings himself. LUKA is a practicing artist but too lonely, it stops up all his creative juices and flow.
JACK can become the wife of LUKA, doing the dishes and giving a morning handjob and tucking him in at night. LUKA can dedicate his poems to JACK, who sacrificed so much and even became transgender for the sake of culture, which is the kind of sacrifice that will surely earn his place in the history textbooks. I'll even throw in a blonde wig as a wedding present.
I did it for a while. Learned how to draw up charts and everything by hand. It just didn't speak to me though. It's hard finding out people's birth times as well in the UK (it's on birth certificates in France, for instance). I actually started on sidereal astrology - which is actually based on where the stars really are - rather than tropical (which is out by 26 degrees) - think it might've been better to start with the latter.
Leo
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forget about actually meeting up with people, it's even impacted my desire to zoom with friends. last spring when all this started, we looked forward to connecting, staying in touch, catching up, but that now seems like a novelty that wore off and we've rarely done it in the past six months. used to be someone would suggest a zoom, and we'd immediately sort out a convenient day and time. now the suggestions come much less frequently (and rarely from us), and the response is instead a more ambivalent "yeah, we should do that".
and we're not bummed out about it at all.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Zoom isn't a good substitute for hanging out IRL though.
I was an introverted loner before the lockdown, so I think I've adjusted to it a lot more easily than some people, but I definitely miss hanging out with my mates. For years now this hasn't meant going to a crowded pub or club, more just sitting in a living room getting drunk/stoned and listening to music. If I could still do that and the pubs/clubs were all closed I don't think I'd be that bothered.
I do miss other public places though, like galleries, cinemas, cafes...
I was an introverted loner before the lockdown, so I think I've adjusted to it a lot more easily than some people, but I definitely miss hanging out with my mates. For years now this hasn't meant going to a crowded pub or club, more just sitting in a living room getting drunk/stoned and listening to music. If I could still do that and the pubs/clubs were all closed I don't think I'd be that bothered.
I do miss other public places though, like galleries, cinemas, cafes...
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Zooming has made it more obvious than ever before that hanging out with friends for me usually needs to involve some shared activity.
A psychiatrist made this point in an episode of Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing - that men tend to need an activity to hang their friendships on.
The most satisfying method of socialising for me during lockdown has been playing games with my mates. There's no pressure to come up with something to say, no waiting patiently/anxiously/bored for your turn to speak...
A psychiatrist made this point in an episode of Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing - that men tend to need an activity to hang their friendships on.
The most satisfying method of socialising for me during lockdown has been playing games with my mates. There's no pressure to come up with something to say, no waiting patiently/anxiously/bored for your turn to speak...
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