Fun

What could you do less of?

My life is busier that it has been for decades, I have family now and my honorary daughter and her partner and children. I play badminton.

However, I think Covid changed a lot.

Since I moved to our current location I’ve struggled to make connections, and certainly to find any hobbies. A few opportunities have come my way, I’ve said yes, nothing has come of it. I say yes to most things.

I do wonder if living in a city would make a difference but I don’t know anymore. Life has changed. In truth I’m a cinema, theatre, am dram, poetry group kind of person. Used to belong to a fantastic poetry group in Bath. I also love history. The big cities are so interesting to walk around, anywhere in the world.

I also love grand nature, but I live in one of the gentler parts of England. When I think of what you can see in the Americas without leaving your continent! Boy I envy those guys. A friend is travelling around the Americas in a camper van, and people said she wasn’t dynamic! She puts 99% of people to shame, including me.

I mainly write and we’re supposed to be reclusive but a writer also needs stimulation in their lives.

How this happened I don’t know. It kind of crept up on me. But I will keep looking, keep trying to find something. But for all the connections on social media, you try to arrange a meet up, drag us out of our ‘safe little worlds’ to try something different.

If you want to know the real reason for a great deal of the poor mental health in the modern world, it’s living an unnaturally isolated life. Trudging from home to work from home, and not being alive, existing not living.

And stuff, clutter, many of us have far too much that sits in our homes, gathering dust, representing every holiday we haven’t taken.

I need to be very careful where we move next, I’m going to check areas for a lot to do and a dynamic what’s on list.

Wish me luck.

Deb xx