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A commiseration post for today. Feel free to skip it if you're not in the mood for negativity.

Having to stay inside means we're all losing things we once had, or could have had. What have you lost to the forces that make you stay inside? How do you deal with the grief surrounding those losses?

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petra

I'm sorry you lost your pool. That sounds like quite the blow. And then losing the socialization on top of it, too.

I don't even go to the library unless I need to -- but I often need to for emotional support reasons, and being unable to be there hurts, so I sympathize with that hard.

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jesse_the_k

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The good news is I realized it was about to happen, and mindfully experienced every possible drop of my last swim.

Libraries are very safe spaces for me because anything is possible. I might get the energy to finally read any of thousands of books! I could discover the origins of albalone! I could meet a newcomer and intro them to our city. I could cook up an obscure question and reference would demonstrate how they answer it. Or I could lounge by the magazines and gobbble up People and We.

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petra

Taking a mindful swim sounds extremely therapeutic. I'm glad you got fair warning and were able to do that.

You have summed up how I feel about libraries very well. They're just chock full of things that might happen and stuff I might learn. When I get in the library-going zone, I have a terrible time limiting myself to only the books I'm sure I'm going to read. That seems like a betrayal of all the books I might possibly read, if only I get the right kind of inspired.

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jesse_the_k

That seems like a betrayal of all the books I might possibly read, if only I get the right kind of inspired.

Oh! I used to struggle with this and then I turned 60. I realized that I'd never get to all the books on my TBR and that's okay. In the Before times, I'd spend a couple hours a couple times a week sipping samples of interesting books and not checking them out. Tasty!

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petra

I've already hit my "I will never read all the books I want to read" but I'm still working on "and that's okay." I like the idea of sampling books and not checking them out very much.