July 18, 2020 - 309 - "Ahhhhh: Isolation Sweet Isolation"

I May Have Been Made For This

     Just three, correction:  five days away and I was really ready to get back home.  

Staying Entertained

     First off:  Staying busy has never been a problem.  At any given moment I can tell you about the 3-9 books I have going.  Or I could share the 2-10 house projects I've been trying to get to, the language(s) I want to learn, the 300 things I want to write about, learn about, or think about.  Then there's the top 20 places I want to go, and the new skills I want to practice...

     I've always felt I wouldn't have enough time to get to all the things I want to do if I had 10 lifetimes.  

Homebody

    Then there's the fact that I absolutely crave time alone.  I actually get energized by time at home.  My point is:  a lot of this covid isolation has been pure bliss for me.  

Too Much of a Good Thing?

      But, yeah, I'm just starting to realize something:  Even introverts need some balance.  

      I might have a high tolerance for time alone...but it was always to balance out the extreme-interaction and stimulation my job, and life in general, gave me.  

 Daily Hits of Happy

     -Being home

     -Having a Zoom call with friends in far-flung places

     -Getting to get back into my habits.  (Turns out:  I really like routine.)

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“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. 

I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. 

Even the inside of your own mind is endless; 

it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? 

The fact that you’re alive is amazing, 

so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”

― Louis C.K.

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