YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

1. Open a goldfish fishing business
2. Watch the entire series of Friends dubbed in Japanese

Interesting!

Please explain more about the goldfish.

Inspired by this and Manuel Moe.

My thought is, future goals should bring your current capabilities to life, in the present. In this example, the idea of small children and 80 year olds side by side, engaged in the same activity does that for me.

I can’t name the capability, but I feel more capable with that as one of my future goals.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/onde ... o/4026121/

Have you been to Japan, BB?

Yes, to Tokyo a few years ago. I seem to spend time weekly connecting with Japanese culture in one way or another though; food, clothes, paper, stationery, online content, books, films. I don’t really understand why, I just accept it’s happening. There’s a thread of profound sadness, and joy, running through it which moves me deeply.

The capability the goldfish pond goal makes come alive in me is my cultural learning/teaching.

3. Breathing easily while playing ukulele in a market band on a Saturday afternoon.

BeanyBoo, #3 feels like pure joy to me and the visual of it makes me happy.

Can you relate to this? Sometimes when something profoundly sad is happening to me, there's a small part of me that is so satisfied, it's banging its knife and fork on the table and saying with satisfaction, "we are living, and feeling".

Yes for sure. A satisfying sadness; that you can show and share, and also hopefully see in others is what I am always aiming for. In a world threatened on all sides by crushing and organized boredom, sadness is a life force; a wellspring.

It’s a moment you want to never end.

Goal 2 version 2: Potter around another language until it becomes sentences that form relationships with other speakers.

Goal 4: Validate the women around me, during a normal day, in the what I say and the role I play.