Don't mean to be a downer, but anyone else just feeling kinda bummed lately?

You're not wrong and it has to come to a head. We are not trending in a good direction.

So I love Photography and with the weather warming back up I want to go through the trouble of getting back into it.

However, I also kind of wish life was over enough to not feel compelled to get back into hobbies and pass-times.

We all know and sense the big hammer is ready to fall making everything seem futile. But, it never quite falls, and we're always caught between "What's the point?" and "Gotta pay bills" (therefore work, get stressed, need to relax, enjoy time with hobbies/pass-times, etc)

Ug.

Enough already.

Yes.

For me its a combination of the trauma of all the bullshit that was 2020, knowing its not over & the majority of sheep acting like its so great that well be back to "normal" as if they all got brain damaged and forgot what " normal" was before covid, even before 9-11.

And it isnt just covid obviously, its the woke newspeak & logical contradictions, gaslighting, etc.

And I dont blame the teens & 20 somethings cuz they havent really known much else.

It also destroys my spirit to think about what trauma this has caused to the young children ages 4 through 12.

Last Edited by Gone..... Again! on 03/16/2021 10:01 AM

Isnt it interesting to note how a few decades ago zombie films were being pumped out the. Within the past several years zombie games are all over the place.

Its all been programmed into our brains slowly over time purposely.

Were are without a doubt being programmed

when life gives you scurvy, make lemonade!

No more than normal...

Yes, I can usually roll with the punches, but the entire weekend I was in such a state of aggravation. Completely over it. Hang in there, you are not alone

Is this bummed feeling going to take you down?....I mean, how powerful is this bummed feeling?

First off, it's good that you are self aware enough and open enough to post about it....


The thing is, lovey, you need to do something to counteract that feeling, least it becomes your norm.


Heh, I've posted this suggestion I don't know how many times on GLP, but I doubt anyway was actually tried it....at least no one has told me they tried it. Perhaps you'll be a first.

The thing is, this simple task worked so very, very well for me, and I can't give up on suggesting it as at least one tool tried to....to become lighter and happier within yourself, where it counts.

The following is a simple afformation, the sidekick of affirmation that actually works. It works because it gives your consciousness something new to work on....because it comes in the form of a question asked to yourself. The subconscious has this "new toy" to work with, and will quit playing over and over again the programs you have running in your dark quarter that "depress" you.

Very simply ask yourself, out loud, multiple times a day--

Why am I now so happy?


--and see what happens....


All I have to do is ask myself that question, and a smile spreads across my face and I feel much lighter. I become happy.

This tool is not a cure all, but it is very helpful to get you through the rough days....it has been extremely effective for me for a few years now.

We don't have to be completely miserable, eh?....

This past weekend was rough for me, what with the Pisces New Moon's influences. I have a Pisces moon and my empathetic sense was off the charts....and that ain't no fun, especially since none of it was my own emotional crap. I'd get that welling of emotion, deep from within my gut I don't know how many times this past weekend. Most of the time I wouldn't start full on bawling - I try to control myself - but my eyes were moist most of the weekend.....and it was reactions to everything, the good, the bad, and they ugly.

Now that it's pretty much over I look back, shake my head and chuckle a little. T'was not an easy weekend, at all.

Perhaps the moon's status might explain a bit of your "aggravation"....

I agree - in fact it started a little earlier - remember the 1980's early 90's fascination with vampires? Another form of the undead who require regular access to fresh blood?

Vampires and Zombies are excellent metaphors for our late stage capitalist decline where vampire titans (FATA: Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Alphabet-Google) roam the land scarfing up the remaining, though not for long, live corporations, gorging on fresh stimulating blood injections from the (NOT the) Federal Reserve while zombie corps (corpse) with no future stumble about the landscape indiscriminately slaughtering the economic prospects of the remaining employed citizenry.

UBI (universal basic income) is a prison from which there is no escape - I believe that in the near future people will be allowed to sell more than just their blood platelets but their internal organs pre-death (doesn't that fit nicely into the Vampire-Zombie metaphor) for another fleeting hit of their drug of choice.

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as for me, I was but I keep visualizing heavily and dreaming of the fews destruction and when that time comes how will there punishment be handed to them. and that keeps a smile on my face.

you know that the time is very close, when you now have rappers heavily turning to christ. professing. and now all about A CREATOR.

when i listen to them i laugh at them hahaa..cause in there eyes they have no soul after selling it. so hearing them try to teach others. while they enchanted thousands with there music to kill and worship money for many many years. and now out of nowhere they want to profess.


i laugh cause that only tells me one thing they know there time is coming and its very close. if it wasnt and they did not feel this. they would still be getting that money and bitches, and chanting how they are murda murdas. hahahaah.

I also used to do photography! I was obsessed, I had my own dark room and everything. I was looking at some of the amazing mirrorless cameras and stuff they have they look SOOO amazing ... but SOOO expensive! definitely something I might think about getting back into, as you spoke of it it kind of tingled in me a bit :) thanks!

U making fun of me? lol

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great video!

I've been feeling bummed every since the presidential election. I don't get too down about because I stay busy all the time. I've been snowed in for a few days, and that makes it a bit harder. I try not to dwell on that which I can not change.

You can get a Nikon Z6 for about 1000 now. It's what I have, and it's on par with a Nikon 750 DSLR which is pretty good and fairly contemporary.

I love my Z6. I could never have done film but digital is so freeing and mirrorless even more so.

My last shoot I had an 85% "usable" rating whereas before mirrorless I'd probably end up with 20 good shoots out of 200.

One of mine from back in my D700 days...

That camera is not so good, her feet are out of focus...

Can't tell if serious or silly...

But it's called Bokeh.

It's a good thing.

This is the part where you develop some sense of callousness. My beliefs teach me to love everyone as myself... well if I were doing some of this garbage I'd be highly pissed off and disappointed in myself. I'd probably have a long internal monologue telling myself what a screw up I am... but I'm my own worst critic/enemy.

your not wrong

you must've accidentally walked into the big picture

or are part of the bigger story

and now life isn't so great

because we are oppressed by unseen and unspoken forces

making learning taboo

In a word, "Yes"...