In the last few years I’ve simplified my life a lot. In the process, I guess my tastes changed. I don’t feel like staying up late or going out to bars on the weekends. I don’t have a strong urge to travel a ton. I don’t want a promotion at work, or a nicer house, or a nicer car, or more friends, or to have kids... though I wouldn’t turn down another dog.
Sometimes my contentment feels like depression. I’m not striving for things like I used to. There’s really nothing that I want - I have a job, husband, dog, place to live that I love... and I’m content with the way things are. But it’s a really weird feeling that I can’t get over. The calm almost feels like depression because I used to want for so many things that I was always scheming and brainstorming ways to get it. I used to be a lot more expressive, maybe more so in an anxious way. Now I’m pretty even-headed and my emotions are less intense. Or maybe I just express them less intensely.
Has anyone experienced this before? Or am I just maybe going through some depression too?
Submitted April 29, 2018 at 02:44AM by themightytod https://ift.tt/2jdgRPM
