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.
Let’s keep this safe for work 🙂
As always, thank you all so much for answering my questions! I hope you everyone is having a great day!!
I’ll preface this by saying I understand it might be hard to get into this mindset, I’m not trying to be patronizing or reductive of your feelings.
I try to appreciate tiny little things in my day. Pleasant smells, seeing the beauty of everyday items, the warmth of tea, how pretty the sky looks when I happen to notice it.
Along the years I’ve collected little things that bring me joy to use, like nice dishes and mugs, a pretty pen with a color I love to write my notes in, clothes I feel cozy in. I don’t acknowledge them every time I use them, but they bring me little moments of appreciating what I have and the beauty of everyday items.
This is one of those chicken and egg things, I don’t know which causes which, I can tell you I consider myself quite happy with my life, I’m very grateful for where I am in life, even though my family and I have been heavy a rough year in terms of circumstances.
As for passions, I love learning and crafting, lately I’ve been focusing more on sewing, but I haven’t had much time to dedicate to it. I like spending time with my husband, just doing boring grown up stuff like buying groceries is better with company :)
I hope you get better soon!
how pretty the sky looks when I happen to notice it.
I second this one with every fibre of my being. Look at the sky every chance you get. Clouds are beautiful.
Photography also helped me learn to keep my eyes open for all the pretty sights around. There’s a lot more of those waiting to be witnessed out there than one might think.
The natural world,alas it’s estimated that.5% of the planet is unspoiled
This is true, for many happiness can be found in nature. Let’s hope we continue to have a planet in the next few years!!
Thanks for posting!!
I’m so effing depressed, so the best I can offer are distractions lol I keep going, but I miss the joy most of the time.
My special interests right now are plants, fishes and ants. In the northern hemisphere is a good time to find some queen ants, making diy homes for them is rewarding, cheap and it won’t take a lot of space (at least for some time, until the colonies grow). Plants are great because a lot of people have them, so you can ask for cuttings and tips, and there are also studies about the benefits of having plants in your environment. Almost the same with the fishies.
If you find something interesting, even a little, try it. There’s always time to leave it if finally that’s not your thing.
cooking meals 😁
It’s interesting to me the number of people I have met that find cooking brings them joy or happiness. It’s cool and all, but, for me a little odd. Probably because I eat to survive and not to enjoy.
I bet friends and family are appreciative of your joy of cooking!!
Thank you so much!!
when you learn to cook food that tastes really good and that other people enjoy, it becomes much more than a survival activity and more like a hobby, though once you start you can’t stop, I do all the cooking and baking at home 😅 To be honest, cooking gives my life most of its meaning, I am a cook more than anything else.
It does get harder to go back to poorly prepared meals, and you start to become dependent along with everyone in your family, as nobody wants to go back to box meals or restaurant food. You realize at some point you can’t buy the kind of foods you can make at home. And it can be a lot of pressure to perform and deliver every day, but that provides its own rewards. In the end, I like working and producing something others value, and cooking is a rewarding kind of work.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing the “why” behind this bringing you happiness!!
Community with people, whether they’re friends or just acquaintances from hobby groups. Making art. Reading good fiction. A better physical state from exercise, etc.
Awesome! Glad to hear you have others to talk to and share with.
Any recommendations for reading? I don’t generally read for pleasure but, I am sure others are curious!!
Thank you so much!
It’s cool that you’re making this thread as a way to help people. I feel like any community would be lucky to have you.
Some recent books:
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Butter by Asako Yuzuki The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
While the internet can be a crappy place most of the time, I’d like to think once in a while it can at least be fun, friendly, and helpful.
There may still be hope for The Mars Trilogy… it’s not 2026 yet… then again “waves hands around at everything”… we may have to settle for the story.
🙂
Philosophizing. Programming and finally accomplish that very difficult task. Reading an unexpected revelation or an incredible quote in a book.
