My friends and I get together once or twice a week to hang out and play games and all that, but almost all year we've been doing online shit. For a while, we went back to face to face, but every time there's a scare in the news they run off and go back to online. I was fine with this for a while, but after 8 months, I've had enough and decided to take a stand and not do online anymore, and will only get together when we do things in person.
I'm unmarried and don't have much contact with the family, so for a few weeks I've been feeling the isolation hit me more and more. I need advice, pedes. I really believe going along with this lockdown bullshit only perpetuates it to keep going, but I'm at a loss. Do I start hanging out with them again online, or do I continue to hold my ground? It's getting tougher to tell what the right thing to do here is.
Seek out locations with an outdoor patio or an open air environment. Send the invite and see who is willing to join. If two or three of your friends come consider it a win. If nobody comes, consider it a win for you! Take the selfie and send it to the group. A stand always starts with one person.
Make new friends
If you can use your phone to do your online meetings with them, then you should meet with them sometimes still, but do it from some outdoor or remote location away from your house.
That way they see you out doing your thing and living in the real world, and maybe that will encourage them to do it themselves?
Standing on principle isn’t worth sacrificing your sanity, so if you need your friends’ companionship then don’t write them off completely just because they’re fraidy-cats.
B strong pede!!! Perhaps invite them on a nice walk or frisbee golf :) mini gumball5000 if all else fails, tell em how take feel... u got this!!! Cheers fren! <3 MAGA2020
get a hobby. learn to enjoy your own company. go out and meet different people. your friends are pussies, my god i can't imagine hanging with people like that.
I play golf and go shooting regularly by myself and I have plenty of friends. I actually like being by myself from time to time. It's also way easier to meet new people when you are by yourself. Just put yourself out there and get about your business pede.
yep. The simplest way to meet people is to just say hello and speak to them. Be nice and they will usually be nice back. Engaging people is a skill that everyone should try to master.
My personal advice is, find a presbyterian church near you, or some Reformed church (usually has "Calvinist" in their name)
I know religion and especially Christianity get crapped on at times like this, but because of our dedication to worship God in person, a good Christian community will help deal with the BS that's going on.
Or jewish. It's not a coincidence that the lawsuit filed against Cuomo was filed by religious communities.
Find a woman to live with you. Isolation doesn't apply to "same household."
Wander around outdoors. If you see a woman also wandering around, and she is in a business that requires intelligence, such as, she works in, or is shopping at, a home repair business, ask her out. Everybody's lonely, not just you. Lots of women would love to meet a normal man like you.
I feel you man. My own circumstances have led me to be further and further isolated due to lockdowns and work bs. Taking a stand is important but humans are social creatures and sustained loneliness/isolation isn't healthy and you gotta take care of your mental health in order to fight for what you believe in. I think it's ok to hang out with them online in order to find that connection. Maintaining your sanity doesn't mean you aren't "serious", it just means that you respect yourself and are doing what you gotta do to survive this chaos. Be well fren
Never give up, never give in.
Online is bullshit. Covid is bullshit. Masks,,,definitely bullshit.
Either you resist the new normal or it will become your new normal. Fuck anyone that can’t see the commie take over that’s being attempted and when they finally come around, if they’re lucky, you won’t make fun of them.
Isolation is easy. Less stress and nobody hounding you about things that don’t matter. If you need, get some hobbies and kill some time.
You’re feeling lonely because you cut off your friends. Reconnect with them. Anticipate and prepare for the times that you will feel overwhelmed.
Get out with your friends.
Tell your friends to stop being fags.