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Rhiannon12866

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10. I'm usually okay once I go out, but I dread it.
Sat May 22, 2021, 06:42 AM
May 2021

I look forward to not having to be anywhere. I'm usually okay when I do go out, but it wears me out and I often fall asleep once I get home. I can't believe that I used to be out most days, I'm just not up to that anymore. I think that part of my problem is that when I do go out, I try to get every single thing done that I can think of so I won't have to go out again soon. And I'm fully vaccinated, too, have been since the end of March, thought I'd be relieved - and I was - but I look forward to having nowhere that I have to be. But I think a lot of people are feeling this way if they mostly stayed in for the past year. I also miss the lack of traffic, that was the one thing I enjoyed. And I think my animals got used to having me around, too.

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I'm finding people I know going over the top bucolic_frolic May 2021 #1
I noticed that in the grocery. True Blue American May 2021 #4
I'm experiencing some of what you've mentioned. whathehell May 2021 #20
My Agorophobia is in overdrive! Fritz Walter May 2021 #2
Wow whathehell May 2021 #14
Maybe it is just me, but True Blue American May 2021 #3
Hmm.. whathehell May 2021 #16
I have a friend in Florida who wants to visit me in the U.K. in August iwillalwayswonderwhy May 2021 #5
If she's been vaccinated let her come oldsoftie May 2021 #8
Is it because.. whathehell May 2021 #15
Partly, I think the pandemic turned me into a bit of a hermit iwillalwayswonderwhy May 2021 #17
Be up front about not wanting to do much sightseeing. No Vested Interest May 2021 #18
I think it's done something similar to me.. whathehell May 2021 #19
I was never really "locked down" so it wasnt bad oldsoftie May 2021 #6
I've never not felt like this... diverdownjt May 2021 #7
Me Naio May 2021 #9
I'm usually okay once I go out, but I dread it. Rhiannon12866 May 2021 #10
i'm dreading seeing my neighbors. mopinko May 2021 #11
You are not alone. There was a cartoon in the New Yorker recently expressing the same sentiment. c-rational May 2021 #12
Okay, thanks for telling me. whathehell May 2021 #13
Yeah feel so awkward I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2021 #21
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