Jun 6, 2021, 1:00 AM

@solstice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This back to normal shit is happening too fast.
I can't just flip a switch and suddenly be okay in a sea of coworkers, vaccinated or no.

I've been doing Doordash off and on and let me just say how fun it is to see literally every business in the town I live in interpreting the changes just a little bit differently. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, walking into a diner where the tables are still distanced and everyone is masked up, a bank where no one is masked or distancing and I feel like I stepped back in time or onto a movie set or something, a bakery with a zany mix and people working the counter with their noses exposed like they just barely started learning how to wear the fucking masks, etc.

It's also pretty aggravating and stressful to feel judged for choosing to continue to wear mine, despite being fully vaccinated. I've been smirked at literally every time I'm in public and I just want to shake them. They don't know me, or my medical history. Ugh, people.

Speaking of!

@testament said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I just feel very alone. And it's disturbing to consider the idea that this might be all I have to look forward to for the foreseeable future. And no amount of pills or talking to my therapist seems to make it better. It worries me.

I feel you on this a lot. It's kind of funny, having a pretty small and tight-knit circle of friends was sort of a weird point of pride in my twenties, but damn if that isn't bleak as hell in my thirties when most of them are in different stages of life from me and we've all drifted apart. The pandemic absolutely did not help with that.

But hey, at least you've got us!!!

...that should be encouraging and not depressing and/or mildly horrifying ok