Bad taste to enjoy lockdown

[schooba]

To think it's bad taste for people to enjoy lockdown?

I think some people are sleeping and in total denial to the damage of it.

It's different because you know a lot of people are suffering as a direct result of the same thing you're enjoying.

so... cheap clothes made by child and slave labour, make-up tested on tortured animals, cheap food or food imported from countries devastated by the way they are produced and transported , holidays that have completely ruined the property market and local environment, you being free of rubbish ending up overseas.. shall I go on?

The hypocrisy of these threads and the corono-martyrs is abysmal.

You have young children, yes OP?

If they are giggling and laughing and saying that they love having mummy / daddy around more at the moment or they are loving exploring the local woods or they they are loving not having to get up to early for school etc etc

Are you shutting them down and telling them that they’re being distasteful?

It's the longest I've ever had off work and my mental health has improved immensely. I was on the verge of being signed off with stress.

Doesn't mean I'm not sad and worried by the current situation.

@PafLeChien

We were also enjoying the huge drop in pollution. Until twats starting to shit in parks and beaches, which short term is just as bad.

To be fair... human farces isn’t “pollution”

faeces!

To be fair... human ,,, isn’t “pollution”
very true, but short term it is! The accompanying rubbish, dirty nappies etc.. is not great either.

I haven't found lockdown too bad although the wider situation is terrible.

I do feel a bit left out though as so many people are having the time of the lives holidaying on the beach every day etc whereas I've stayed very close to home.and not took the piss.

@sodamon indeed young children...

This is just another discussion about different perceptions and ways of using Facebook, isn't it. To which the answer is, if you don't enjoy other people's posts, snooze / block them or come off Facebook.

Surely most people are aware that many people who are unhappy, insecure or desperate, post their 'best moments' as evidence, to themselves more than anyone else, that they're not complete failures. That tendency seems to account for a lot of Facebook content.

If you are the type to think that someone else posting something good about their lives is done to make you feel inferior - get over yourselves, recognise that the world and other people's thoughts do not revolve around you and your feelings, and look inwards to find out why you feel that way.

Where it all goes wrong, is when these two tendencies collide and feed off each other, in a permanent spiral of 'keeping up with my distorted perception of the Jones's'.

I am on both sides here.
My anxiety has increased tenfold and I am in a panic a lot of the time. On the other hand I am enjoying quality time with my DS and parents (who live with me).

Well in normal times, social media is crammed with posts from people living their best lives. Should they also shut up because of all the people whose lives are awful anyway? I'm quite enjoying aspects of lockdown. I know people who are really struggling with it. I don't know how I can stop feeling what I'm feeling, but I won't be rubbing my friends' noses in it.

Sorry to hear you are finding it hard pieceofpurplesky, I can imagine that prior suffering with anxiety will find this whole thing really difficult. At least there are some positives for you. This will pass, in time.

I know people who are really struggling with it. I don't know how I can stop feeling what I'm feeling, but I won't be rubbing my friends' noses in it

Its the whole 'misery lives company' thing. Many unhappy people will like seeing other people wallowing in misery, and think it's ok to post things saying that life isn't great, but clearly don't like people posting the good stuff.

Having said that, there will be people that are doing fine that will get fed up with people continually posting negative stuff, especially of the attention seeking, not telling the whole story, kind.

So I guess it's swings and roundabouts in some ways.

It's half term, your feed should be full of photos of luxury beach AI holidays and families having the time of their life. Unless it should have been you, and you are resenting you are not the one showing off a good time?

People are having a few bbq because after an unusually wet winter (even for England) we are having an unusually sunny spring and we are all stuck home.

If that's what you are bitter about, it's rather sad.

I am NOT enjoying lockdown, and my mum is REALLY enjoying her even more intense narc-powered criticism of everything I'm trying to do to support myself (and her, she's shielding, naturally) whilst parenting teens and wfh. Now THAT is bad taste.

Maybe there should be a parallel 'Miserybook' for all the 'misery loves company' types? An endless 'Three Yorkshiremen' spiral of fun?

Whatever floats your boat.

But, if people gain satisfactation out of that sort of thing, then they're sharing and experiencing pleasure - and we can't have that, surely!

Might as well enjoy it as I have no choice about my furlough weeks. When I get back to work properly, assuming the company hasn't imploded, it will doubtless be very stressful.

...So maybe a 'perfectly balanced, boringbook' is required, with all posts required to reveal good and bad things about your own life, plus reference to your joy, hope and compassion for everyone else.

Oh hang on, that's not Faceboook, that's church.

It's different because you know a lot of people are suffering as a direct result of the same thing you're enjoying.

In that case, I hope nobody will post about enjoying the end of lockdown as that will almost certainly bring suffering to other people.

Ultimately, if you can't take pleasure in your friends' happiness, you're not much of a friend (so should unfriend them, for their sake).

Enjoyed the first few weeks which isn’t surprising as I’m a complete introvert. Downhill since then, feel like someone has switched me off. My DP has just been made redundant and my job isn’t safe so no, hating every minute of it.

I just love the weather right now not just because we are getting plenty of sunshine but the air feels so pure as so much less pollution around. It is like reconnecting with mother nature.

Quite right OP, we should all be experiencing misery and despair and doom & gloom. How dare someone feel happy, it's shocking.

It's different because you know a lot of people are suffering as a direct result of the same thing you're enjoying.

Yeah, global capitalism does this. That's everything materially good in your life, all the time.

Except in that case, the benefits to you often cause and depend upon the suffering of other people.

That is not the case with Covid. You having a nice time in your garden will not cause someone's granny to die. Your picture of the event might even cheer them, and their granny, up for a second.

Oh for God's sake, let people enjoy things if they are able to. You don't get social brownie points for being miserable