I'm not sure how well this will work to improve my mood, but I'm willing to try
My wife loves me
My child loves me
My house is filled with love
I have a house
My backyard grew enough pumpkins to give one to each of my child's classmates
There are people in the world who respect me (even if that also kind of stresses me out, because I have to live up to their expectations)
I can answer some of my child's science questions, like "look at that little bird sitting on the wire, how come it doesn't get electrocuted? Why do people get electrocuted if they touch a wire?"
My child shares my interest in physics
I make some money from performing improv
I have made some short movies, and I can expect to make more
I have made theatre I'm proud of.
I could do more.
I'm seeking out help, even though I don't really expect it to help me.
My child likes my long beard. I liked the way I looked in the mirror this morning, with my beard sticking out of my hoodie
Plants grow
My wife is a poet
We are not imminently in danger of losing our access to basic necessaries due to financial stress
You also share your love of puns with the Hive community every week and your contest partially inspired me to start my Graturday giveaway. As for help, good help is worth its weight in gold so I hope that's what you've found and if so, that you can stick with it. ☮️🍀👍
It's people who are willing to help by, say, looking at my resume and giving advice, but it's a tough job market regardless... and it's looking for jobs that aren't my dream job, so it's hard to stay motivated.
Ah, I understand. Sometimes the jobs that don't bring us joy are stepping stones to the jobs (or lucrative personal business ventures) that do. And sometimes they just just pay for the hobbies that you really live for. The job market is tough but it's not impossible just yet so I hope you find the right one 👍
Thanks for following up abject misery (I'm so sorry you sure make it sound bleak) with your joys.
is not such good news though. Why not stop wasting your money? I'm quite peeved with mental health professionals of late. They are often pushing political agendas while making us feel inadequate that we don't naturally embrace those same agendas; we are considered ill, often in need of medication, if we do not embrace the agendas. Also, get your kid out of public schools. Children are no longer safe there, no more safe than they are at doctors' offices. They get poisoned in both of those places, and made slaves. Look at your slavery, then be free. That's advice, freewrite advice. I hope you don't mind.
A) the help I was referring to was meeting with a career counselor
B) I'm also meeting a psychiatrist for untreated ADHD. No one is pushing a political agenda. My mom was diagnosed late in life, and started medication that has very clearly from both her perspective and an outside perspective improved her quality of life drastically
C) There are many problems with public schooling, sure, but the solution is to support the schools. Be an active parent and support with your volunteer hours if you can. Read the latest studies on child psychology, be data driven yourself and help the school craft improved intervention methodology. When parents remove themselves and their kids from the public school system, they silo themselves from their communities and make themselves and their community that much less resilient.
D) I'm not sure what you mean by people are made slaves at the doctor's office. Maybe you mean because you have to chain yourself to debt in order to access healthcare? I'm lucky enough to live in California, where Medicaid access is extended to low income parents of young children, so my healthcare is free.
Thank you for the reply!
I sent three kids through public school, and wish mightily that I had not. They have been indoctrinated with Democrat party ideals (I have been registered Dem for 50 years now) and view all things through an atheist and politically liberal lens. Given that our conservatives are being denigrated for simple moral stances, and their lifestyles greatly hampered, and given that I believe in freedom, I oppose our children being politically indoctrinated by issues such as climate change, vaccination, blind trust in our obviously deeply corrupt government (right and left), and the like.
I used to think as you do about public schooling. Support the community! No child left behind! Until one of my children was funneled into restrictive learning situations because he couldn't quite comply with the onerous rules, was required to get medication for his supposed focus issues or else, was required to get western med treatment for something we were treating naturally, and essentially was so grievously harmed by western medications and school-based incarceration that he did not survive his twenties. No he did not do drugs. No he did not kill himself. Iatrogenic disease is killing our children, and the schools are, in many cases, forcing those dangerous drugs on them.
So you mentioned that your child is having the types of difficulties my son had beginning in fourth grade. His schooling was a nightmare for the entire family after that. I wish I had removed him. And now that I have had this experience, I find that many others have had the same. We are marginalized, judged and somewhat invisible, anmd there are a great many of us. There must be alternatives for children who are struggling to perform in those settings. As it is, we lose our best and brightest, our most innovative and energetic, to lifelong medicalization and psychotherapy. It's nuts.
I am so sorry for your loss. That must be devastating. My heart goes out to you. Sending so much love.
It is always good to count your blessings! Life can be tough, but trying to stay positive is a good idea. It does sound like you are blessed. Maybe you can lift your mood by doing something for someone else where you get nothing in return - no pat on the back.