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Post by busymom on Feb 2, 2021 10:23:23 GMT -5
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Post by Tiny on Feb 2, 2021 13:01:31 GMT -5
I don't think people are getting weirder - they were weird before COVID19. It's just easier to be "yourself" when you don't have to put on your "socially acceptable for a situation" self.
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Post by NastyWoman on Feb 4, 2021 1:17:12 GMT -5
I don't have a clue. It has been so long since I have just sat and talked to someone. I maybe the weird one or I could come out mostly unchanged. Time will tell
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Post by laterbloomer on Feb 4, 2021 8:53:02 GMT -5
Who is around you? Are they isolated with just you?
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 4, 2021 9:00:58 GMT -5
The longer we are isolated from the general population the more our unique senses of humor appear.
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 4, 2021 10:24:29 GMT -5
Who is around you? Are they isolated with just you? They are. And very much just with me. My wife works in a grocery store and they tell me she is too high risk so they won't even be around her. They disappear when she gets home.
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Post by Tiny on Feb 4, 2021 10:39:25 GMT -5
Some various concepts? ideas? thoughts? I read from various opinion/first hand accounts of the last year have got me thinking...
What exactly does "isolation" in terms of the pandemic actually mean?
For some reason "isolation" makes me think of the Little House on the Prairie books - when it's Laura (and her mom and sisters) are in their sod house on a plot of land they are trying "claim" and it feels like they don't see another human for months on end they don't get any mail or anything else from outside. Or Edmond Dantes while he's in prison (the Count of Monte Cristo). ) (and on a weird note - when I read a Tale of Two Cities in HS - I was a little confused by why Doctor Alexandre Manette went crazy - locked in his cell, all by himself, making shoes... I was like "how is that not great? someone brings you food, you don't have to do chores or talk to other people AND you get to spend hours on your hobby? Why did that make him crazy??"
I have 'mourned' the loss of the social gathering things I did pre-covid but I don't really feel isolated. I have a phone, a computer with a camera, a TV, access to the internet/streaming. I can walk to the grocery or fast food place, I drive to the pet food store, I buy stuff on line. I've been to the dentist, taken my cats to the vet. I've done lots of things I've never done before (and had fun doing them). I see and talk to my neighbors (safely socially distanced).
I heavily lean towards introvert (so I don't really mind that I haven't been hugged or had to shake hands or have people (strangers) stand so close they brush up against me). That whole stranger thing may just be a left over from my younger years because I'm a woman (and when I was younger I was hourglass shaped and busty... and men's hands wander). I will be glad when we can "socialize" again. But in the mean time the current situation isn't so bad. I'm glad I live in a densely populated Urban area. I'm not ever really alone.
How about all of you? What does your "isolation" look and feel like?
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Post by laterbloomer on Feb 4, 2021 10:52:13 GMT -5
Who is around you? Are they isolated with just you? They are. And very much just with me. My wife works in a grocery store and they tell me she is too high risk so they won't even be around her. They disappear when she gets home. Who are they? And we might have found the cause of their crazy
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Post by daisylu on Feb 4, 2021 11:28:06 GMT -5
Some various concepts? ideas? thoughts? I read from various opinion/first hand accounts of the last year have got me thinking... What exactly does "isolation" in terms of the pandemic actually mean? For some reason "isolation" makes me think of the Little House on the Prairie books - when it's Laura (and her mom and sisters) are in their sod house on a plot of land they are trying "claim" and it feels like they don't see another human for months on end they don't get any mail or anything else from outside. Or Edmond Dantes while he's in prison (the Count of Monte Cristo). ) (and on a weird note - when I read a Tale of Two Cities in HS - I was a little confused by why Doctor Alexandre Manette went crazy - locked in his cell, all by himself, making shoes... I was like "how is that not great? someone brings you food, you don't have to do chores or talk to other people AND you get to spend hours on your hobby? Why did that make him crazy??" I have 'mourned' the loss of the social gathering things I did pre-covid but I don't really feel isolated. I have a phone, a computer with a camera, a TV, access to the internet/streaming. I can walk to the grocery or fast food place, I drive to the pet food store, I buy stuff on line. I've been to the dentist, taken my cats to the vet. I've done lots of things I've never done before (and had fun doing them). I see and talk to my neighbors (safely socially distanced). I heavily lean towards introvert (so I don't really mind that I haven't been hugged or had to shake hands or have people (strangers) stand so close they brush up against me). That whole stranger thing may just be a left over from my younger years because I'm a woman (and when I was younger I was hourglass shaped and busty... and men's hands wander). I will be glad when we can "socialize" again. But in the mean time the current situation isn't so bad. I'm glad I live in a densely populated Urban area. I'm not ever really alone. How about all of you? What does your "isolation" look and feel like? Bolded is one the biggest reasons that I am not a hugger, as well. At 45, I am still uncomfortable with hugging - unless it is children. I am also an introvert and have always been fine with not socializing, but after this last year I am realizing that I NEED to have personal interactions. With the way the world has changed, it is now the norm to not talk to people in a store. I did not realize how much talking to a stranger in the grocery store benefitted my mental health. DH loves to tease me that whenever he found me in the store I would be talking it up with an old man. That was pretty accurate. I always tell him that you never know someone else's story, and that few moments of conversation may have been the most attention the person you chatted up had all day/week/month. If that took a few moments out of my day I was ok with that. Now that things are different, I am seeing how much those interactions helped me as well. I am a very Type A personality, and everything I do normally has a purpose and I am stay concentrated on that task - those times took me out of my own head for a little while. So if some strange middle age lady tries talking to you in the grocery store, don't be afraid.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 4, 2021 11:42:29 GMT -5
Some various concepts? ideas? thoughts? I read from various opinion/first hand accounts of the last year have got me thinking... What exactly does "isolation" in terms of the pandemic actually mean? For some reason "isolation" makes me think of the Little House on the Prairie books - when it's Laura (and her mom and sisters) are in their sod house on a plot of land they are trying "claim" and it feels like they don't see another human for months on end they don't get any mail or anything else from outside. Or Edmond Dantes while he's in prison (the Count of Monte Cristo). ) (and on a weird note - when I read a Tale of Two Cities in HS - I was a little confused by why Doctor Alexandre Manette went crazy - locked in his cell, all by himself, making shoes... I was like "how is that not great? someone brings you food, you don't have to do chores or talk to other people AND you get to spend hours on your hobby? Why did that make him crazy??" I have 'mourned' the loss of the social gathering things I did pre-covid but I don't really feel isolated. I have a phone, a computer with a camera, a TV, access to the internet/streaming. I can walk to the grocery or fast food place, I drive to the pet food store, I buy stuff on line. I've been to the dentist, taken my cats to the vet. I've done lots of things I've never done before (and had fun doing them). I see and talk to my neighbors (safely socially distanced). I heavily lean towards introvert (so I don't really mind that I haven't been hugged or had to shake hands or have people (strangers) stand so close they brush up against me). That whole stranger thing may just be a left over from my younger years because I'm a woman (and when I was younger I was hourglass shaped and busty... and men's hands wander). I will be glad when we can "socialize" again. But in the mean time the current situation isn't so bad. I'm glad I live in a densely populated Urban area. I'm not ever really alone. How about all of you? What does your "isolation" look and feel like? Bolded is one the biggest reasons that I am not a hugger, as well. At 45, I am still uncomfortable with hugging - unless it is children. I am also an introvert and have always been fine with not socializing, but after this last year I am realizing that I NEED to have personal interactions. With the way the world has changed, it is now the norm to not talk to people in a store. I did not realize how much talking to a stranger in the grocery store benefitted my mental health. DH loves to tease me that whenever he found me in the store I would be talking it up with an old man. That was pretty accurate. I always tell him that you never know someone else's story, and that few moments of conversation may have been the most attention the person you chatted up had all day/week/month. If that took a few moments out of my day I was ok with that. Now that things are different, I am seeing how much those interactions helped me as well. I am a very Type A personality, and everything I do normally has a purpose and I am stay concentrated on that task - those times took me out of my own head for a little while. So if some strange middle age lady tries talking to you in the grocery store, don't be afraid. The older I get the more inclined I am to start a conversation with strangers while in the food store.
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 4, 2021 11:43:24 GMT -5
Some various concepts? ideas? thoughts? I read from various opinion/first hand accounts of the last year have got me thinking... What exactly does "isolation" in terms of the pandemic actually mean? For some reason "isolation" makes me think of the Little House on the Prairie books - when it's Laura (and her mom and sisters) are in their sod house on a plot of land they are trying "claim" and it feels like they don't see another human for months on end they don't get any mail or anything else from outside. Or Edmond Dantes while he's in prison (the Count of Monte Cristo). ) I have 'mourned' the loss of the social gathering things I did pre-covid but I don't really feel isolated. I have a phone, a computer with a camera, a TV, access to the internet/streaming. I can walk to the grocery or fast food place, I drive to the pet food store, I buy stuff on line. I've been to the dentist, taken my cats to the vet. I've done lots of things I've never done before (and had fun doing them). I see and talk to my neighbors (safely socially distanced). I heavily lean towards introvert (so I don't really mind that I haven't been hugged or had to shake hands or have people (strangers) stand so close they brush up against me). That whole stranger thing may just be a left over from my younger years because I'm a woman (and when I was younger I was hourglass shaped and busty... and men's hands wander). I will be glad when we can "socialize" again. But in the mean time the current situation isn't so bad. I'm glad I live in a densely populated Urban area. I'm not ever really alone. How about all of you? What does your "isolation" look and feel like? We just had a meeting and they voted to censure you for attempting to hijack our thread on weirdness. Fortunately for me, there are no teeth in their censure resolution so I can talk about what you bring up. I am not working. A couple times a week, I will see and converse with the couple next door or their little walking group of 4/5. I walk to get mail and grocery shop and have brief interactions. I am not close to family but have short text message exchanges every few weeks. I have television and internet including obviously this message board. And a wife that is home except for about 35 hours a week at her job. We spend most of our time in our individual recliners, I on by tablet and she on her laptop, occasionally sharing things we find interesting or amusing. We turn the television on a few hours in the evenings. How do I feel? When I was in high school I was part of a tight little group of 5 within a larger theater group. Sophomore year we did a show one of our group had written and directed. Opening night he gave each cast member a card. On the front of mine was a picture of a sailboat at sunset and handwritten something like, "I wish I was alone on a boat, sailing on ... eternally." One summer I spent more nights in my hammock in the woods, most only with my Golden Retriever, than in my bed at home. My wife at that time told me once, after listening to it, how much Willie Nelson's lyrics in Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys described me: "... 'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone, Even with someone they love ...". I am happy.
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Post by Tiny on Feb 4, 2021 12:36:06 GMT -5
We just had a meeting and they voted to censure you for attempting to hijack our thread on weirdness. Fortunately for me, there are no teeth in their censure resolution so I can talk about what you bring up. As a kid - I had so very many imaginary friends (and Places to go) when I was a kid that Myself and I apparently felt excluded from the group and moved on to greener pastures. So it's just Me. I was lucky and most of the "people", "creatures", "things" I'm friends with in my head all stuck around and grew up with me. Since everyone I interact with in my head are in other more interesting Places, they rarely visit boring mundane "here". I tend to visit the other Places whenever I can (usually when I have time on my hands or have to wait or can do a chore on autopilot.) I'm glad all of you are comfortable together inside your head. And it's nice that you have found someone to be "alone" with outside your head. Today I am wearing a black and red plaid Comfy, a pink "mad bomber" hat and bunny slippers while working (I'm cold for some reason) - I have two conference calls later today - it's gonna be interesting. I may take off the hat.
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 4, 2021 12:54:21 GMT -5
We just had a meeting and they voted to censure you for attempting to hijack our thread on weirdness. Fortunately for me, there are no teeth in their censure resolution so I can talk about what you bring up. As a kid - I had so very many imaginary friends (and Places to go) when I was a kid that Myself and I apparently felt excluded from the group and moved on to greener pastures. So it's just Me. I was lucky and most of the "people", "creatures", "things" I'm friends with in my head all stuck around and grew up with me. Since everyone I interact with in my head are in other more interesting Places, they rarely visit boring mundane "here". I tend to visit the other Places whenever I can (usually when I have time on my hands or have to wait or can do a chore on autopilot.) I'm glad all of you are comfortable together inside your head. And it's nice that you have found someone to be "alone" with outside your head. Today I am wearing a black and red plaid Comfy, a pink "mad bomber" hat and bunny slippers while working (I'm cold for some reason) - I have two conference calls later today - it's gonna be interesting. I may take off the hat. Like Sheldon from Big Bang, my mother had me tested when I was young. I had created my own language which my parents didn't understand (literally and figuratively ). Fortunately my older sister did and would translate for them. And actually, FWIW, I was just joking about "they". I feel bad enough for people who have to deal with what comes out of my brain. I won't wish it anyone to be in there. Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him He ain't wrong, he's just different But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
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Post by Tiny on Feb 4, 2021 13:23:43 GMT -5
Like Sheldon from Big Bang, my mother had me tested when I was young. I had created my own language which my parents didn't understand (literally and figuratively ). Fortunately my older sister did and would translate for them. And actually, FWIW, I was just joking about "they". I feel bad enough for people who have to deal with what comes out of my brain. I won't wish it anyone to be in there. Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him He ain't wrong, he's just different But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right I know you were joking. I was attempting a (humorous) riff on the "Me, Myself, and I" thing. And just because early Hip Hop is fun (and I'm a fan of De La Soul) I will put this here:
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Feb 4, 2021 13:37:05 GMT -5
We just had a meeting and they voted to censure you for attempting to hijack our thread on weirdness. Fortunately for me, there are no teeth in their censure resolution so I can talk about what you bring up. As a kid - I had so very many imaginary friends (and Places to go) when I was a kid that Myself and I apparently felt excluded from the group and moved on to greener pastures. So it's just Me. I was lucky and most of the "people", "creatures", "things" I'm friends with in my head all stuck around and grew up with me. Since everyone I interact with in my head are in other more interesting Places, they rarely visit boring mundane "here". I tend to visit the other Places whenever I can (usually when I have time on my hands or have to wait or can do a chore on autopilot.) I'm glad all of you are comfortable together inside your head. And it's nice that you have found someone to be "alone" with outside your head. Today I am wearing a black and red plaid Comfy, a pink "mad bomber" hat and bunny slippers while working (I'm cold for some reason) - I have two conference calls later today - it's gonna be interesting. I may take off the hat. This sitcom popped into my head while I was reading your post:
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 4, 2021 16:37:36 GMT -5
As a kid - I had so very many imaginary friends (and Places to go) when I was a kid that Myself and I apparently felt excluded from the group and moved on to greener pastures. So it's just Me. I was lucky and most of the "people", "creatures", "things" I'm friends with in my head all stuck around and grew up with me. Since everyone I interact with in my head are in other more interesting Places, they rarely visit boring mundane "here". I tend to visit the other Places whenever I can (usually when I have time on my hands or have to wait or can do a chore on autopilot.) I'm glad all of you are comfortable together inside your head. And it's nice that you have found someone to be "alone" with outside your head. Today I am wearing a black and red plaid Comfy, a pink "mad bomber" hat and bunny slippers while working (I'm cold for some reason) - I have two conference calls later today - it's gonna be interesting. I may take off the hat. This sitcom popped into my head while I was reading your post: I loved Herman's Head.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 19:34:27 GMT -5
People already think I’m weird and I’ve always been ok with that. When I was growing up, my Mom fondly referred to some of the things I did as my “idiosyncrasies”.
My daughter thinks I’m weird, “but in a good way!” she always adds. My BF thinks I’m weird, some friends and coworkers think I’m weird. I can’t count the number of people that think I’m weird just because I don’t watch much tv. Shrug.
I guess it’s good that I do still get regular interaction with other people besides the ones in my household, even if it’s just my coworkers. Otherwise I could probably come up with some strange ideas to keep myself entertained if I was home 24/7, and be even more weird.
As long as it’s harmless and brings a bit of joy to one’s life, I don’t see an issue with being weird.
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 4, 2021 20:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 5, 2021 23:17:44 GMT -5
I've always been weird. I don't feel any different now than ever.
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Post by teen persuasion on Feb 6, 2021 12:33:22 GMT -5
As a kid - I had so very many imaginary friends (and Places to go) when I was a kid that Myself and I apparently felt excluded from the group and moved on to greener pastures. So it's just Me. I was lucky and most of the "people", "creatures", "things" I'm friends with in my head all stuck around and grew up with me. Since everyone I interact with in my head are in other more interesting Places, they rarely visit boring mundane "here". I tend to visit the other Places whenever I can (usually when I have time on my hands or have to wait or can do a chore on autopilot.) I'm glad all of you are comfortable together inside your head. And it's nice that you have found someone to be "alone" with outside your head. Today I am wearing a black and red plaid Comfy, a pink "mad bomber" hat and bunny slippers while working (I'm cold for some reason) - I have two conference calls later today - it's gonna be interesting. I may take off the hat. Like Sheldon from Big Bang, my mother had me tested when I was young. I had created my own language which my parents didn't understand (literally and figuratively ). Fortunately my older sister did and would translate for them. And actually, FWIW, I was just joking about "they". I feel bad enough for people who have to deal with what comes out of my brain. I won't wish it anyone to be in there. Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him He ain't wrong, he's just different But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right DD1 named the languages spoken by her younger siblings: Lizzyish, Ethanese, and Xanderillic. She's now a Chi-ling, married to a Kor-ling, working in cryptology for the Navy. (That's Navy-speak for Chinese linguist and Korean linguist).
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Feb 6, 2021 12:59:49 GMT -5
I have been isolated since being released from 20 days in ICU with covid pneumonia. I am now able to go for a walk and sit outside, socially distanced. H. has been around me the whole time. We asked no one to visit or call. Talking dropped the oxygen level in my blood too much. We did welcome soups and cookies. I have been home 14 days. My oxygen has walked down to 1 liter. Maybe next week I can get off it. H. was in total quarantine alone. He had a lot of anxiety and couldn't eat. Neighbors did call and drop off soups. I asked my son (I don't know how I talked to him on my cellphone since it felt like it weighed 5 lbs and my computer even more.) to call him. H. was happy when I survived and got to come home. -------------------------- I do have social anxiety. This explains my inability to easily make friends. I joined a ladies group which helped that a lot. Then one bad apple started bad mouthing me. Now we have wonderful friends to visit with on the patio.
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