Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I’m very perplexed. The man came home from work sick “What’s wrong?” “I don’t know everything hurts and I’m tired”. Right. The kid and I have developed a dry cough and dry throat very similar to hayfever apart from those and slight body aches which can come from coughing but nothing else. It was a high pollen day yesterday. Hayfever or something else? I’m not sure.
Update: the man has tested positive to the covid.
I am now being tested.
Update 2: I and the kid are negative. We will test again tomorrow.
Kid is coughing up a storm and the Mrs is saying she’s coming down with “something”, so it’s going around, whatever it is.
Covid? It’s still around in various forms.
Flu? This winter’s was pretty rough and we’re still at the tail end of it. If you haven’t had your shots it could floor you.
Head cold? My daughter copped one a few weeks ago. Felt very ‘meh’ for a few days.
Oh no, I hope you’ll be ok and it won’t affect your taste buds.
Think of all that alcohol and the cricket match coming up!
Love this time of the evening in summer. The angle of the sun is just perfect for highlighting the dust on every horizontal surface in my home. 😍 #blessed
These bad bwoys are about to go:
Neighbour came over yesterday (she has amazing roses) had a look and flexed a bit “oh they’re a bit slow this year dear”.
I’m feeling helpless about how shit the world is getting. Not only war and climate change and nazis/fascism rising again. But things like food and housing are becoming so unaffordable, and there is very little that can be done about it by the people it most affects.
There is small scale stuff like pitching in to community food gardens, rewilding, cleaning off swastikas, or volunteering with Food Not Bombs but it seems naive and useless in the face of the sheer scale of removed continuing to fuck everything up. At a certain point you just cannot pick up the slack.
Also my mental health is tanking and I’m literally not able to do much physically. I guess I just stick my head in the sand to try and care for myself the the best I can?
I think your last paragraph is the best option when you feel the way you do.
I take breaks from the world for self care when it gets too much and I feel overwhelmed.
We aren’t built to take in so much information so quickly. I little media blackout while you deal with your health is always a good idea.
Unfortunately it’s hard to deny things affecting you directly and causing it. But attempts will be made
Not reading ! = denying, it is easy to feel that way but it is definitely possible to take a hard media break for a week at least and not miss out on anything that will immediately and directly affect you.
Because honestly most of the time these days even if you find out about it ASAP, does it actually, concretely help you prepare better? Personally I find it does it the opposite by getting me down due to its relentless nature and the biased opinions that crop up without having time and space to process and see things in perspective. Media is not your friend
Do you watch a lot of reels / consume short media? Like the other commenter said, we aren’t made to process so much information so quickly. Definitely try some apps that help with black out or ween off insta / twitter completely for a bit
Not really actually. It’s more how it’s intruding in concrete ways and preying on my mind.
ie Being affected by the cost of living, especially food. Substandard and unaffordable housing. Antisocial behaviour in my neighbourhood rising. Fretting about actions that aren’t eco friendly - then remembering it’s pointless because renewables are being used as a political football and our plastics aren’t even being recycled. Knowing that as temperatures slowly rise my cheaply built flat will become intolerable.
But seeing stuff reflected in the news (ie. around housing climate and food, like it really is that bad) doesn’t help. The Gaza news is also harrowing.
It sounds horrible, but yea. Shrink your circle of concerns. No one can take care of everything, that way lies madness.
Also put in some work curating / limiting your SM. It’s designed to keep you panicked doomscrolling.
I used to be a bit of a news junkie but unsubscribed from a whole lot of stuff about a month ago. Now I focus on funny stuff, and I didn’t realise how much I needed it. I get what you’re saying about how futile it feels to do your bit of goodness for the world while multinational companies are busily screwing the planet over with impunity. Still do your little bit, and know that others of us are doing our bit too, and together we count even though it feels small sometimes.
I don’t know how to help but I can sympathise. I also struggle sometimes knowing the world is full of arseholes. Reducing media might help but for me personally it doesn’t, I know it all still exists. But there are good people too! Lots of them. People trying to make a difference. Diseases are being cured all the time, social progress is being made with thing liken same sex marriage, inclusivity is more visible in media and art, renewable energy sources are growing, etc. I think we can only accept that the world is the way it is, and know that you yourself are a good person doing the best you can.
Loud O Lady downstairs decided it was a fine day for a rare 1:30pm screw, which is great for her except I was in a work meeting and have a very good microphone.
They gonna think you had a porno on in the background while you work. 🤷♀️
