Escapism FTW
What do you do to get rid of stress?
Read entertaining (as opposed to depressing or frightening) novels, preferably set in a time and/or place that is very different to mine. I've always been able to lose myself in fictional worlds; as a child I annoyed my parents by just not hearing them when they tried to get my attention. Sadly I can no longer achieve that sort of complete immersion - noise really distracts me, especially conversation or songs in the background.
Good TV comedies also work well, but they seem to be a lot rarer now. In fact it's hard to find good stuff to stream in general. I've found that most of what we watch now is foreign: Korean, Danish, Israeli, French...
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Read entertaining (as opposed to depressing or frightening) novels, preferably set in a time and/or place that is very different to mine. I've always been able to lose myself in fictional worlds; as a child I annoyed my parents by just not hearing them when they tried to get my attention. Sadly I can no longer achieve that sort of complete immersion - noise really distracts me, especially conversation or songs in the background.
Good TV comedies also work well, but they seem to be a lot rarer now. In fact it's hard to find good stuff to stream in general. I've found that most of what we watch now is foreign: Korean, Danish, Israeli, French...
Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
comments.