Had a high-point today.
I can remember tamagotchis being around, and today I played team-based Capture the flag(beanbag) on a basketball court.
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My life is pretty great.
It just annoying that having a good life makes you anti-social, because all anyone I try to socialize seems all anyone to want to do is complain about how awful their life is. Life I was at a party two weeks ago and 70% of the convo was complaining about stuff, 20% was world cup, and 10% was stuff I actually cared about and also was with the one person I knew a long time. I came home pretty annoyed and bummed out. I just can't relate to the constant negativity that seems to bind people together and seems a requirement for small talk these days, or even medium talk.
It's been years since I met anyone with a positive attitude or had interests beyond sports and whining about life. 2023, actually. It feels like lately people are just super eager to frame everything as awful and bad, and also like self-guilt themselves with little weird phrases and want to bond over who/what they hate or they think is inferior. I don't get it. But I do know the more time I'm spending alone the past year means my mood is generally positive, and that the only people who seem to have positive outlooks on life are my old friends from grad school who are focused on their families and not agonizing about social media trends.
I feel like if I was miserable and spiteful and angry it would be a lot easier to connect with new people, but it just really turns me off when they bring that kind of talk up.
A database switchover got delayed, so expensively as the new and old ones are both up for another week.