Everyone looking after themselves? I started a new workout routine and I’ve quit smoking (mostly) and it’s really helped.
Hope everyone is okay wherever you are!!
Everyone looking after themselves? I started a new workout routine and I’ve quit smoking (mostly) and it’s really helped.
Hope everyone is okay wherever you are!!
Pretty solid. Getting more and more compliments in my physique which is an extra motivation for working out. Job is going okay-ish right now. Nothing to worry about financially, really.
It’s mostly been mentally recharging for me the last few weeks. Reading some manga (Planetes series by Makoto Yukimura) and books (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Murakami).
I’m starting to look ahead and plan my next steps regarding jobs and political activity. Also starting to plan my holiday trip through Europe by train.
So overall pretty good. 7/10.
Also good on quitting smoking. I’ve smoked for years but I just feel so much better now. Holding on to this is one of the best things you can do for yourself.
Thank you 😊
I won’t lie it’s so hard right now and I’ve caved a few times (usually when I’ve drank) but I know I can do it now so it’s just about maintaining it.
Awwwh that’s boss to hear!
Financial stability is so key to good mental health so I’m glad to hear you are doing okay!
Yeah I could do with some of that, the past few just weeks feel like a fog 😵💫 any good? Would recommend?
That sounds sick, decided on which stops yet or still looking to nail that part down?
Recommend the books you mean? Planetes is fun. It takes place in the future and it’s about a trash collecting service in space. It has a twist with some activist-terrorism. The drawings are mental as well.
The Murakami one is a typical Murakami book, and so far not really in a great way. If you’ve ever read a Murakami book you might know what I mean with that lol.
My main plan for the trip is to go to the Balkans, mainly Slovenia and maybe Albania or Montenegro. The backup is Basque Country + Asturias’ mountains. Two very different places with different cultures, food, weather and landscapes. But they have one thing in common: bears. There’s lots of wild bears in these areas. I’d love to see some bears in the wild. But I haven’t decided which one it will be yet. Might be an actual coin toss really. They also both have a very interesting leftist history, which is always a plus.
Awwwh that sounds great I might have to give it a look.
I haven’t you know 😳 I feel like a loser now hahaha
Awwwh cool! Yeah I think a lot of my friends wanted to go travelling but where ignorant or didn’t care about half the history they were missing and it felt really sad, like If you travelled then surely the point is to learn?
Bears 🥰 so cute when I’m not within a mile of one!
The point of travelling is to drink buckets full of mixed drinks to the point where your puke and shit are the colour of Flügel all the while you’re using your tongue as a washing machine in the mouth of a lass who ate nothing but garlic sauce induced kebabs for ten days straight. That’s the life mate.
Hahahahaha omfg 🤣
I’ve read myself some Murakami and I definitely know what you mean lol. I find sometimes he meanders way too much on certain elements of his stories without ever really pulling them together in a way that pays off, so it just ends up being another case of “this main guy meets a bunch of wacky people and hijinks ensue” without any real centering of the story. Wind Up Bird Chronicle is another book of his where this really shows. I couldn’t even finish it, it just got so tiring to read.
Then again, he can also write really well when he wants to. Norwegian Wood is an absolutely amazing book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is coming of age, especially in this generation where we’re seeing the same patterns of political culture during the 1960s, when the book takes place.
What I do appreciate about Murakami, though, is all the subtle ways he deconstructs and mocks traditional Japanese society, especially in Norwegian Wood and Wind Up Bird Chronicle, even if I didn’t enjoy the latter. He also demystifies a lot about Japan too, which is really nice.
Wrestle a bear or was it really a vacation 🤔