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Does this ever happen to you?

me
Do you ever feel anxious and you have no idea why? I've felt that way the past few days, and I can't explain it. Can't put my finger on anything. Work is going well, the kids are doing well in school, Big G's getting over being sick. I can't think of anything wrong. I just feel nervous, like something bad is about to happen and I just can't see it.

So, I'm going to try to list the good things to try to get this dark feeling to go away.

-- We got rain this week, glorious, slow, soaking rain. And we're likely to get a little more today or tomorrow.

-- Big G's getting well again.

-- Yoga classes started up again after the Christmas break.

-- I got to see my mom and dad twice in two days after not getting to see them at all at Christmas.

-- I finished Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan and liked it VERY much, so the reading year is starting off with a bang. Next up is Mark Twain's Joan of Arc.

-- I'm working on a shawl/scarf thingy that I think I'm going to love. I imagine I'll post pictures of it whenever I get through.

So, lots of good things. Got that goin' for me.

Comments

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greedyreader
Jan. 12th, 2013 02:45 pm (UTC)
I DO feel anxious sometime. I guess it is the episodes of disappointment/unhappiness/etc that imprinted on me. /shrug
o_jenny
Jan. 16th, 2013 02:06 am (UTC)
I'm glad it's not just me. Maybe we can help one another through the bad feelings. <3
madame_urushiol
Jan. 13th, 2013 01:26 am (UTC)
I get that way a lot, but I've never known it to predict something awful happening to me or someone around me. I figure it's just me picking up on some random dark vibe out there in the universe, of which there are many, sadly. However, if I feel that way in the presence of a new person, I sit up and take notice. My 'bad vibes' have seldom been wrong.

It's always a good thing to take account of what's going right in your life. I wish more people thought to do that.
o_jenny
Jan. 16th, 2013 02:06 am (UTC)
I'm going to try to do more of it.

You do have a very good intuition about people.
florafloraflora
Jan. 13th, 2013 11:21 am (UTC)
I get a foreboding sometimes but I think it's different: more like, everything is sailing along so smoothly, either in my life or in the world, and it can't last. Once was the summer before 9/11 and once was a few months before my ex moved to North Carolina, which eventually split us up. But I don't think it's the same thing you've got now.

Glad to hear Sweet Tooth is good.
o_jenny
Jan. 16th, 2013 02:07 am (UTC)
It's fun. Probably the most fun McEwan I've ever read (and I've read quite a lot of his...) :)
elhamisabel
Jan. 13th, 2013 12:04 pm (UTC)
Sometimes I get this anxious feeling. I don't think it's anything foreboding, though. Sometimes I feel it's the brain reminding me that not everything is always going well.
o_jenny
Jan. 16th, 2013 02:07 am (UTC)
Yes, that could be it...
zugenia
Jan. 15th, 2013 03:35 pm (UTC)
I had an entire year like that. I know it was a year full of all kinds of changes and physiological shenanigans, but it has been exhausting. Coming out of it is kind of a project for me right now. Reminders of things that are good tend to be helpful, but sometimes they bite me in the ass by making me feel guilty for feeling bad "for no reason." I'm reading a book on on mindfulness that talks about "giving yourself permission" to feel anxious as a way of preventing anxiety about anxiety to spiral. I understand this, even if I'm not very good at it yet.
o_jenny
Jan. 16th, 2013 02:08 am (UTC)
> Reminders of things that are good tend to be helpful, but sometimes they bite me in the ass by making me feel guilty for feeling bad "for no reason."

Yes, exactly. I totally get that. Like it's wrong for me to be anxious or worried because everything's good. Even though everything will not always be good. Because that's just the way life is.
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