DailyJim: So tired of it or just feeling sad?

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. Today is Monday, October something, 21st, 2024. Today I want to talk about so tired of it or just feeling sad. So I was walking down the street just a little bit ago and I thought, man, I'm so tired of this shit, honestly. And I mean, there's a lot going on. One thing I feel comfortable sharing is that a friend of mine, I had to go into the hospital because there's a family emergency and it made me think of, my mom having a family emergency you know being in the hospital last year two years ago god I can't even remember so many times and I just all the sadness kind of flooded back and thinking about feeling a bit lost sometimes and going through different fights and conflicts and being so frustrated and so like angry and so afraid and and I think I'm maybe what I'm tired of is covering the sadness maybe that's actually it maybe I'll title it that we're not tired of it we're tired of covering the sadness there's a lot of sadness in there there's a lot of pain and how few of us cry I just felt even when I was on a call earlier today and I felt when I heard a story like if I like there's a group call and I felt tears come to my eyes I'm like this is like a work call I shouldn't be feeling sad on a work call but we feel sad and to actually feel sad I think we need to slow down so maybe there is a connection between being tired and being sad is that tired wants us to slow down sad wants us to slow down maybe it's similar to when my friends would yawn in East Africa or I'd yawn there and they'd be like oh you're hungry I'm like what what? Because I don't know why there, but maybe some places associate yawning with hunger because it's tired and maybe you're tired because you haven't eaten. And so I wonder how much in my life I've associated being tired of something as basically just covering sadness, having lost something or lost a belief in something or hope in something or a physical object or a human or whatever, and, yeah, the body being so tired from the, maybe, anxiety, and so tired from the frustration, and then just being really tired, but not recognizing the sadness, and I think, gosh, I think about all this work I've been doing with elections in the last couple weeks, and how many people just feel really tired of politics, but underneath it, maybe people just feeling really sad.

What are we sad about when it comes to politics? Are we sad that poll workers only come around every year? Not poll workers, like canvassers only come around every four years, knock on a door and say, hey, we need your vote now. Where were you the last, you know, 365 times four days of, you know?

And maybe we're just sad because we see some of our leaders saying such vitriolic things, just shouting and hating on each other more than anything.

Maybe we just, what do we feel sad about when it comes to politics? What do we feel sad about when it comes to our lives? And why, why don't we just feel sad instead of maybe the culturally more appropriate one, at least in the U S and be like, Oh, I'm tired. Maybe you're just sad. Maybe it's a lot more sadness than you think it is. So I'm going to go reflect on that. Keep this rather short. Cause I'd say I'm tired, but I mean, physically I am tired. I woke up early, but I think there's a lot of sadness in there, and it's okay.

It's okay to be sad. It helps us recover, helps us move through.

I love you all. Take care. Talk to you tomorrow.