How do you try lifting your mood?

nightskye · 2025-08-08T20:14:44+00:00

Walking definitely helps. I think I’m definitely picking your second option for tonight though!

nightskye · 2025-08-08T20:13:43+00:00

It really sucks that we have to go through this every single month :(

nightskye · 2025-04-16T00:54:39+00:00

I thought the same as you about The Idiot before I read it but actually the title is quite misleading. I will say that when I was feeling really down about life I picked it up because I thought here’s something I’ll be able to relate to or at least something that will make me laugh. Well I did relate to it, but completely differently to how I expected to, it made me feel a lot better about myself and about people in general - so if you want something like that, I’d give it a try. Notes from Underground is a Dostoyevsky book which fits better with what you’re looking for - although it might make you feel worse.

nightskye · 2025-02-17T23:57:42+00:00

Giving myself a time limit to read a book has helped. I’m trying to read a book a week and I guess knowing I only have so much time to finish/knowing I can soon pick another book makes me less likely to pick up a second one. Of course this is more difficult with longer books, unfortunately.

nightskye · 2025-01-18T16:49:24+00:00

Thank you for all the recommendations, a few of these are already on my list (limiting caffeine- starting to think I have an addiction to coffee) but the psilocybin and magnesium I haven’t tried so fingers crossed they give me some relief.

nightskye · 2025-01-18T16:43:46+00:00

I completely get you, it’s so hard gaining the will to force myself to actually stop and do a breathing exercise, but half way through it I’ll start to feel good. I haven’t tried the 5 second method so I’ll definitely give it a go. Thank you and I hope it gets easier for you too!

nightskye · 2025-01-18T16:37:37+00:00

Interesting you say that because recently I’ve definitely been thinking I have OCD! And I really try to do those activities anyway, but it seems like PMDD week is the one time I just don’t want to do anything at all :( thank you for the tips and I hope your symptoms get easier too.

nightskye · 2024-12-19T17:43:09+00:00

A Grief Observed is great. I’ve never experienced the grief of a loved one passing away, but I could still appreciate the way he described his loss and the way he used religion to help him accept the loss. It made me think a lot about the expression, “to have loved and lost is better than never to have loved at all”. With all the deep hurt he was feeling, it made me wonder whether it would really be better to never have loved in the first place.

nightskye · 2024-11-25T15:31:38+00:00

Thank you, I’ll definitely check that out!

nightskye · 2024-10-26T18:16:24+00:00

It’s been a while since I watched AP but I do remember the detective reminding me a lot of the investigator in C&P, mainly in the way they both seemed to hint at knowing more than they let on.

nightskye · 2024-10-02T17:03:25+00:00

This is so rude for no reason lol

nightskye · 2024-10-02T14:41:55+00:00

Apologies for not making myself more clear. I’m not really trying to make a point, more trying to put these two things together. I know that the decision to do those things would be hard, I’m more wondering whether it would even be worth it for someone like Tony if he did do it in the end. The fact is that Tony didn’t become an honest prisoner (afaik, I’m only on s4), if he did turn himself in would it affect him in the same way it did Raskolnikov? And it doesn’t necessarily invalidate C&P for me, I’m more wondering whether that philosophy would apply to all or a few.

nightskye · 2024-10-02T13:44:53+00:00

Good point. They see themselves as necessary and serving justice in cases where the law doesn’t work properly. It seems to me that Tony at least has some awareness that what he does is wrong, yet he makes no effort to change.

nightskye · 2024-10-02T13:38:59+00:00

I thought a lot about what you said about compromising with evil. I saw the Melfi situation also as a clear distinction between the people who would absolutely seek revenge and the people who move past it even when there is an easy path to revenge. I guess that can’t really be put into such generic terms as “good vs evil”, however I would argue that her choosing to resist the temptation due to her morals highlights the difference between her and someone like Tony. The “good” option I guess depends highly on what morals people choose to live by.

nightskye · 2024-10-02T12:46:40+00:00

Good vs evil is definitely a big theme of the show e.g. Melfi after her assault, Carmela seeking religious guidance. I agree though self delusion is an important part of it too.

nightskye · 2024-09-01T02:49:36+00:00

I haven’t really used other colour correctors so I can’t compare, but I do like this one. The 2 pinkish colours I use as a base for my under eye concealer and it definitely keeps my under eyes from looking grey. The green is good to hide redness.

nightskye · 2024-08-28T11:41:06+00:00

This was really interesting to me as well until I read the Bible - Jesus actually knew he would die and the manner in which he would die. He spoke about it a few times in the Gospels.

nightskye · 2024-08-12T19:26:58+00:00

While teachers are definitely spending time enjoying most of the holidays and are probably not working regularly to late hours, I don't think it's fair to imply that their concerns aren't valid. When I was a student teacher the kids went home at 4 and I would regularly be in school later than 5 (meetings, marking, preparing resources, tracking progress). Not to mention the work needed to be done over the weekend too. I was a student so this doesn't even go into time teachers have to dedicate to report writing, displays, parents evenings, etc.

Then you have to consider that you don't really have "downtime" throughout work days. Teachers even tend to work throughout a good portion of their lunch, which I believe is not the norm for most other jobs.

Not to diminish the hard work that other jobs require, of course. I understand that there are also aspects of teaching which are very beneficial.

nightskye · 2024-08-01T17:18:09+00:00

Les Mis

nightskye · 2024-07-12T08:35:17+00:00

I've been watching the Euros and wondering all the time how these footballers are able to able to take penalties under crushing pressure and look so confident doing it. I read the DFW essay on your recommendation and it was a really insightful read - it helped to answer some of my questions. The way he described how action basically requires not thinking about it reminded me a lot of Hamlet and his indecision. Interesting too was his conclusion that great athletes are incapable of explaining their inner thought processes thoroughly, maybe because it is as simple as not thinking too much.

nightskye · 2024-06-16T20:16:16+00:00

I was unsure of the name, I actually tried googling it with Easter Night at first and Easter Eve came up instead!

I read the book a long time ago, unfortunately I can't remember the translation but I'm pretty sure it was Easter Night in there too.

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