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Bipolar and ideas of how to help ourselves beyond medication
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Jim, now that I'm house bound due to the virus concerns, I'm trying to sort activities besides tv. I'm 72 and have about 25 journels of drawings, poems and essays from my past. Two or three chapters of the past. I get what you said about the past and the guilt people impose with someone actually pondering the past. But when your retired, with a weak heart, and home bound, just what am I suppose to do....I can read the thoughts of others and there lives, and I do. I can work outdoors cleaning up zero scaping which energizes me. I'm about ready to tackle the journels and make some decisions. No big bond fire since I live in the city and I don't want to pollute our precious air. Maybe the shredder. Or, maybe I'll read them and embarse myself with my sentimentality. Today I went through my notebook of a life time of resumes and letters of recommendation. At first I thought, this is embarressing, but I persisted and began t o see how much I did and what a good job I did. I think when I leave this world I'll take my notebook of resumes.
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I read my journals quite recently, around 15 years worth, mainly to make a record of when I started and stopped taking a long list of medications. It made for some interesting reading. I've told my wife to toss them when I die, without reading them.
I'm already mostly at home, especially in the summer, so being told to stay home is certainly nothing new. We have had to live the prepper lifestyle for quite a few years because it was a more than 2 hour drive to Wal-Mart and Costco, so our Suburban was usually full on the drive home. My wife grew up on a farm, so that's how she was raised. I was raised just the opposite, but I think that the hoarder gene was implanted at birth. So, our pantry and paper goods cupboard are always full. Sometimes it might be good to have a milk cow. But they have to be milked every day. We have ten acres, so we could put her on the pasture. But I'm trying to make our lives lower maintenance. So, probably no cow in our future unless a neighbor would want to share one. That is a thought. My in-laws had one during my wife's childhood. Hmm. I'd better not trouble my mind with that tonight, right at bedtime.
Jim