Re: why does this newsgroup have beasts


John Larkin wrote:
> On 30 Dec 2005 05:13:50 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> >Rich Grise wrote:
> >> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:54:09 -0800, bill.sloman wrote:
> >> > Rich Grise wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Waiting for "society", or anybody else for that matter, is a sure route
> >> >> to the pit of despair.
> >> >
> >> > I'm depressed and under-motivated, but I'm not actively unhappy, and I'm
> >> > not despairing.
> >> > I keep working at the job hunting, and I do get the occasional positive
> >> > response - not positive enough to get me a job, yet, but enough to keep
> >> > me at it.
> >>
> >> You're probably not actually "depressed" in the "clinical" sense. For
> >> example, I've shown a lot of the "warning signs" or "symptoms" of
> >> "depression", but I'm not, like, sad - I think it's just laziness (e.g.,
> >> would be just as happy to stay in bed all day, that sort of thing.)
> >
> >I'm not lazy when I've got a short term goal to attend to, and the only
> >other occasion when I found it difficult to work on a long term project
> >was for a few months after my fathr had died. I'm certainly not
> >clinically depressed, since I feel no need to talk to a doctor about
> >it, and I don't suffer from periods of intense gloom, nor do I burst
> >out in floods of tears from time to time, but I do say "but I can't be
> >bothered" more often than I should, and more often than I used to.
>
> Do you get out and walk around? Exercize is good for the endorphins or
> whatever. Engineering (or not engineering?) is too damned sedentary. I
> have to force myself to get exercize (which I loathe) just to keep my
> brain tuned up.

I go to field hockey practice every Monday night, and walk to my piano
lesson and back on Tuesday afternoons, and cycle downtown to do the
small-shop shopping on Saturday mornings.

If I took my youngest brother's advice I'd do half an hour's brisk walk
every day, but it bores me silly. I don't mind walking to get
somewhere, and happily walk in to the university when I need to do
anything there - and that is half an hour each way - but I can't be
bothered walking if I'm not walking to some purpose.

Exercise does improve my spirits, but not all that much.

I'll get in some walking on Sunday - around Dusseldorf Airport, and
later on in Dubai, getting to the Airbus to Melbourne - but nowhere
near enough.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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