COVID boredom with life not changing.

Hey vibes

Surely boards meets the spontaneous requirement! Though new people - maybe not so much

I can’t say that my like is much different. The “advantage” of having small children ... my life was already boring.

I'd be the opposite, to be honest - I kinda dread the possibility of returning to the frankly insane way we were all living before. Rush everywhere and all the time, rat race in the morning, run to make the train on time, crowds everywhere, queue for a cr@ppy sandwich at lunch, endless meetings just so a few people can strike their egos, rush for a crowded train again, people pushing, people who hadn't seen a shower in days (even if they're "associate director" somewhere), waste a minimum of two hours a day to come and go to a job that has no on site presence whatsoever. Pointless social events, again crowds everywhere - queue for the bar, queue for the toilette, "oh you're not coming? why?" justifications. Nah, thank you.

Now I get up one hour later - check the emails. All going well, take a shower and make some coffee. Sit the morning meeting(s) depending on the day, and they last the allotted time - people don't like to argue about pointless minutiae over webcam. Prepare some lunch, or go out for some exercise (I've taken back to leisure cycling for the first time since childhood) depending on day/weather. Back to work, get stuff out of the way with the advantage of having nobody chatting, gossiping, eating takeout, preparing disgusting yogurt shakes that smell like old sweaty clothes, farting and whatever you can imagine all around me.

Finish work and 30 seconds later I can do whatever I want - I've rekindled a lot of my hobbies that had been laying dormant because, frankly, when I finally got home all I wanted to do was eat crap and crash out. I'm going through my long standing queue of model kits builds, advancing some personal coding projects, exercising more regularly (mostly on my own but even the gym is more tolerable with the limited number of people and booking systems - it's not anymore a fetid, humid, disgusting inferno filled to the brim with 'roidheads, posers and instagram divas) and even keeping the apartment in absolutely spotless condition - mopping the floor or cleaning the bathtub isn't as aggravating when you didn't waste a significant portion of your day travelling on a train you'd rather not board to a place you needn't be.

There are VITAL lessons for society to learn from this, but all the signs point to most of us not getting the message AT ALL.

Before we know, we'll all be back rat racing, commuting, rushing everywhere. People sneezing and coughing, dragging themselves to work when they should call out sick and be in bed. Complaining about the traffic, the crowded bus, that girl in the office who's headphone is so loud you can hear her music, that guy who cycles 30km to work at Tour-De-France pace and refuses to take a shower.

And don't get me started about when the blabbering about global warming, road deaths and whatnot, and "what solutions could possibly be put in place?" will inevitably restart. Although it might turn funny, really - IF mankind ever makes it to a more illuminated state of mind, the future historians will look at the post-2020 pandemic phase and wonder if the virus might not have had some undetected side effects, causing people to lose short-term memory.

It's shıt.

Managed fine for a while, but now it's excruciating boring with no end in sight. Can't even get off this fûckin island to escape either. Same, or worse, elsewhere.

Really can't understand people who are happier with it. If you weren't happy before why didn't you drop out of the rat race?

I'm with you OP

If I was 25 years younger I'd have gone stone mad months ago.

As a youth and young man I loved going out, socializing, hanging around with big groups of people, going to concerts or sports events, spontaneously deciding to go away for a weekend.

I'm almost 50 now, married, settled down with kids so it doesn't affect me as much, if at all.

If I was young the idea that I would have to book a table, pay at least €9 for a meal and be gone in less than two hours just to go to the pub would certainly send me down the house party route.

I have young children so life is never boring but I do think I would have found this period tough going if in my twenties.

I was also a bit sad when strict lockdown ended. We got to spend time with each other we never would have had.

That said I’d love to be going to the electric picnic this weekend too.

and in the morning Diamonds of Frost wrote: »

Please spare a thought for us ambiverts

If normal run of the mill everyday life is frustrating then really something isn't right and that person should speak to someone. I also don't think such boxed off categories such as extrovert/introvert/ambivert take in to account the vastness of each individual.

It's a pandemic and we will all deal with it in our own way regardless of 'type'.

So if some people find packed, sardine trains, mindless consumerism, environmental devastation, insane traffic congestion, sky high rents, gross inequality, homelessness, poor work/life balance and hyper competitiveness problematic, there's something wrong with them and not the society they're living in and they should get help?