Anyone who needs some serious tranquility after getting home from work?

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Feels like I'm running on empty and most of my potential for being productive, let alone creative, has been used up during the day.

I find myself making fleeting plans at work in my mind for private things that i procrastinated on for far too long. But when I get home, I'm so beat and empty, most of the time I don't actually act on them.

It's like the only work of consequence I do happens at the job. After parking and closing the car door, all that's left is what feels like molasses in my bones.

After being the victim of daily circumstance for a good nine hours, I find myself craving for a situation where I don't need to talk to anyone, don't need to make any important decisions, have a drink and a smoke in peace. Feels like I'm running on empty and most of my potential for being productive, let alone creative, has been used up during the day. I find myself making fleeting plans at work in my mind for private things that i procrastinated on for far too long. But when I get home, I'm so beat and empty, most of the time I don't actually act on them. It's like the only work of consequence I do happens at the job. After parking and closing the car door, all that's left is what feels like molasses in my bones.

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Same. And it was almost overnight it seems. I feel like I used to have such motivation and vitality, and then suddenly one day I woke to find myself tired and worn down, excessively fatigued with the day-to-day societal obsession with fags, transformers, and fucking joggers.

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Sounds like you are trying out a Starter Pack of Depression. [TM] Many people, me included, heard the word "depression" and thought it was a prolonged state of sadness or maybe a double dose of teen age Angst.:) The depression thing is much more subtle. Depression is when we can't get our asses out of bed for some reason. Depression is when we stop opening our mail. We suffer from it and don't even notice right away.

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True that. It's like hair growing - one day you realize you need a damn haircut, fucking hippy.

I am extremely melanin fatigued. I am so damned tired of jogger worship and covid nannies, fuck.

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I used to love working away and getting into my hotel room and starfishing on the bed for an hour with no input (i.e. no TV, phone, PC, other people etc) and not sleeping. One hour later, cleared and ready to claim maximum expenses on food.

I say used to as, no working away at the moment obviously...

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I enjoy watching people machining. Edge Precision, Abom, Ox Tools. Calms me right down.

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That's an introverted personality trait. Introverts recharge with alone time. Extroverts recharge with groups.

Find time to recharge more and set plans to force your other activities to happen.

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Wasn't kidding about the cat either. https://files.catbox.moe/fo9qgi.m4v

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Interesting and probably true. (Didn't put any effort into checking either way, was busy with my crazy cat insiting on biting my arm) Might also be a false dichotomy where there are only hundred percenters in both groups and their affiliation never changes over time and age group.

In any case, your recommendation to recharge more, etc. is a great one. I'll have to work on making that a reality rather than an unrealistic pipe dream.