What brings you joy and happiness or, what are you passionate about?
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At the moment, bugger all. Currently in therapy for my PTSD and apparently my chronic "life is infuriatingly boring and nothing is worth doing"-ness is not normal and a side effect of having dealt with as much trauma as I have. Dunno where to go from here, really.
The only place “to go” is where your therapy and personal reflection takes you.
Completely cool to be a little lost and trying to find your bearings again.
Deep breath… one day at time… you’ll get to where you need to be!! I am footing for you!
Thank you for sharing!!
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Seeing my kids happy and growing as a parent. I've put a lot of effort into learning better parenting and better understanding my neurodiverse kid. I'm really pleased about the progress I've made, but equally I'm getting increasingly horrified at how bad I used to be.
Making something. Building wardrobe, making a desk, soldering a custom keyboard kit, making a DIY hitbox game controller, put together a gaming PC, put together a home server, made a website, wrote some support material for younger people giving exams in my professional field, etc.
Or learning about things. Reading non-fiction books, watching educational youtube channels, listening to podcasts, learning to use Linux, etc.
Achieving something meaningful at work.
Do not dwell in your past mistakes if you are a better person now and have grown/learned from them. It’s not worth bogging yourself down over!!
Sounds like you pretty solid in the tech/geek space, those are all really cool achievements.
Linux will be easy once you get a feel for it. It’s way easier now than it was was 20 years ago!!
Appreciate you sharing!
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A few things.
If we look beyond my family, reading is a big passion of mine. This is more audiobooks lately due to the aforementioned family, but whatever keeps the hobby going.
I enjoy movies and have a nice surround sound setup at home. That can eat up a lot of time, just reading about how to improve, not to mention actually using it for both movies and music (again the family can make this difficult to achieve).
I really like photography and have a few of my own pictures hanging on the walls. I have spent hours at a time hunting for great photos, not to mention photo marathons where you take a walk for 12 or 24 hours with your camera.
I enjoy biking. I bike to work every day. When we had the time my wife and I went on longer rides up towards 100km. Small kids have killed the longer trips, but the daily commute lives on!
I recently got into home assistant, automating many a thing, preferably without pissing off the wife too much. That's a precarious balance act, but for now we're still together, so I haven't messed up too badly - yet.
I might have left something out, and I know I had other passions that were left behind as my attention shifted that I haven't mentioned. Lots going on always!
You really have a diverse set of interests and hobbies! That’s really awesome!
Tinkering with anything can chew up a lot of time for sure. I looked at trying to optimize my television and just said “nope, don’t care enough” and walked away. Same thing with home assistant (and I don’t even have a family to deal with haha).
You have any of your photos online? I am sure myself and others would enjoy seeing your work!!
Glad to hear you have some much bringing you happiness!!
Thank you for sharing!!
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Crawling into bed early in the evening with a glass of wine and a good book.
It’s always the simple things that seem to bring the greatest joy to a lot of people.
Appreciate you responding! Also, your username made me laugh a little! Thanks for that!
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The only place “to go” is where your therapy and personal reflection takes you.
Completely cool to be a little lost and trying to find your bearings again.
Deep breath… one day at time… you’ll get to where you need to be!! I am footing for you!
Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for your kind assurances and for "footing" for me, random stranger
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I like gunsmithing. Hear me out! Got loads of guns, mostly pieces of shit I got off guns.com by sorting low > high. Got a new one last night, please don't tell my wife. Only $200, tax, tag and title, but I really shouldn't be blowing money ATM.
1950s bolt-action, 12-gague. (That's a type of shotgun for my European friends.) Already had both an antique 12 and 20 bolt-action, screwed one way or another, haven't figured out how to fix 'em.
Thing I love is that gunsmithing both fits and stretches my skill sets. I suck at woodworking, but I've done some really cool shit none the less. Metalworking? Good lord no, I can barely get anything done. SUPER proud of successfully sawing off (legally) a shotgun. Mechanically speaking? I'm flat out retarded, and I mean that. Only part of the primary school tests I did poorly on was, "rotate these shapes to fit together". It's embarrassing! Sometimes I gotta get my young friend across the street. "Yeah, took it apart quick enough, can't figure this bit out." Couldn't instinctively tell my left from right until my late 40s. Sometimes I still have to skip a beat, think on it.
Gunsmithing takes every skill I got, and I often fail, springs everywhere! But I can push through to the win often enough to get that satisfaction. Easily can take a week of evenings to get an old gun setup. Perfect hobby to fart around with while watching a movie.
This is a great story!!
First, no judgement… second, your secret is safe with me!!
I think it’s great you have something you’re passionate about and want to continue to grow and learn. Mistakes be damned, just keep moving forward!!
Thank you so much for sharing!!
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I’ve recently realized (thanks to another Lemmy discussion), that I have no joy, passion, or happiness left
I want to live vicariously through the collective! What’s bringing you joy, happiness, and/or what are you passionate about.
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As always, thank you all so much for answering my questions! I hope you everyone is having a great day!!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Performing. I'm a circus performer by night. My day job sucks the life out of me, but it pays the bills. My night job keeps me going and helps me make friends and connections.
As an expansion of that, art is my absolute passion. I do not feel alive if I can't express myself creatively.
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Thank you for your kind assurances and for "footing" for me, random stranger
Haha damn auto correct!!! At least it was safe for work and didn’t cause you to go “wtf is this dude saying”!!
Rooting all the way
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Performing. I'm a circus performer by night. My day job sucks the life out of me, but it pays the bills. My night job keeps me going and helps me make friends and connections.
As an expansion of that, art is my absolute passion. I do not feel alive if I can't express myself creatively.
Wow, so you actually got to join the circus!! I assume it’s not a traveling show but still… have to say, I’m a little jealous. I think a lot of us would like to do something like that.
I’ve met a few folks that have said the same about art. I think for some it’s a truly ingrained “thing they must do”.
Thank you so much for sharing!!
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Wow, so you actually got to join the circus!! I assume it’s not a traveling show but still… have to say, I’m a little jealous. I think a lot of us would like to do something like that.
I’ve met a few folks that have said the same about art. I think for some it’s a truly ingrained “thing they must do”.
Thank you so much for sharing!!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Theresa many forms of circus. I am not affiliated with any large production or traveling troupe, I'm essentially an independent contractor. But I'm blessed that I got to be a significant part of Coney Island before I had to move, I miss everyone there :')
