@fallrise__ I guarantee in that moment, the little baby she used to hold flashed before her eyes. She was probably just grateful to have what could always end up being her last time being able to fully pick him up.
When you're bored and you want to do something, but nothing sounds good enough, so you do nothing, which makes you feel more bored and depressed, so you try to think of something to do, but nothing sounds good enough, so you do nothing, which makes you feel even MORE bo--
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
Someone told me I HAD to do the thing I was already planning to do, so now I can’t do the thing.
I can’t really explain why I can’t do the thing, I just… can’t do the thing.