My son and I went and saw “Pacific Rim” last night at the
IMAX Theater, in 3-D. It was a really good movie; intense from start to finish.
Not to spoil it for you, but you should know that the good guys win in the end.
Lol. I decided last week that we should do more things together, but I don’t
want him to feel obligated. It’s difficult knowing what to do because when I
ask him what he’d like to do, he always shrugs his shoulders. I do ask him
things like, “You want to go to the park with me”, but his answer is almost always, “Nah.”
Not emphatically, just uninterested. But, me being me thinks, “then so be it, I’ll just go by myself”. It’s
not like I can run around and play Frisbee, so it’s hard for me to talk him into it. Thinking about it now though, I think I’ll start being more
insistent that he go with me. That way he’ll know that I want to do things with him. Which is the reason I asked him if he would go
see a movie with me last night. I didn’t have any trouble getting him to go
out for ice cream before the movie though. Lol. Actually, last week we were going to go and
play some miniature golf, but the place we went has a very small parking lot,
which was full, so we just came home. But last week was especially bad for me
in the emotional sense, at least in the beginning, in that depression started to consume me, so I just blew off the mini golf attempt. Later in the week, after talking with some good, longtime friends, I managed to
get out of that particular depressive mindset.
Then last Thursday I signed-up for a
support group online, and actually went to the meeting. As it turned out, it
was good for me to connect to people having similar life issues who just
really needed to be around others of like mind. It’s a group ran by a
couple who believe that happiness really is
a choice, but that you have to train your brain to hold onto it. I want to believe that is all there is to it, but I just never learned how. The plan is to
learn how to do that through guided meditation. I met some really cool people
whom I’ll be seeing a few of again tomorrow night, plus meeting a few new
people. It’s entirely possible that I have made some new friends, which I
really, really need.
3 comments:
The support group sounds great. Good job and good luck.
And, I agree you need to get E a bit more involved. Unfortunately, I also think you are going to have to practically force him at first but it is going to be good for him and good for you too.
The support group sounds like a great idea. And I think it is great that you get E to do things with you. Also glad for movie tip as I was thinking that would be a good one for me and Rob to see.
I think you'll both enjoy the movie, especially if you like giant robots and stuff :)
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