Do things that make you happy

[unmed]

I usually make a bee line for the beach. I'm lucky to live on the coast though.

[Lincolnguy]

I'll be the first to say it... handsome man!!!!!

[unmed in reply to Lincolnguy]

Thanks Lincoln

[Mindset-change]

I agree, I also have the pleasure of living never the beach in Kent. You look very happy.

[kentgal in reply to Mindset-change]

Hello mindset change, I am also in kent, would you like to meet for a coffee?

[Trotski]

You just thumbed your nose in the faces of a great number of people on this site. When one is suffering from the depression and paranoia that for many, especially Long Term Survivors of this disease, accompany the physiological and physical tolls exacted by this disease, the prospect of going to the beach, exposing one's self to the sun and facilitating viral mutation with ultraviolet radiation, exposing one's gaunt body, possibly deformed by lipodystrophy as the result of taking in poisons for years so others might be spared that same fate, and crossing paths with someone like you, someone either lacking in empathy or the good sense to employ it, that prospective day at the beach becomes tortuous in thought alone. My intention here is not to level criticism at you and I hope you understand my meanness to be exacting and not hurtful. There are so many of us that live and have for many years, in a place of daunting poverty, where the $1.75 bus fare is unaffordable and any enjoyable activity comes with haunting and overwhelming reminders of the devastating losses we have suffered as this disease unrelentingly invaded and came to rule over every aspect of our decimated existences. As crazy as it might seem, for us, a day at the beach is no day at the beach; well, maybe Normandy Beach.

[Trotski]

Sorry. I was not feeling well and although I was simply trying to explain my own feelings and tried stressing that I was not levelling blame at you there are better words to express my ideas.

[Chrissuffolk]

I like your positivity unmed. It's hard for some people to be that way sometimes but I think your approach of going out and trying to enjoy the spring is the way to go. Life can be tough so I say enjoy what you can while you can.

Getting outside costs nothing, even if it's just in your own back yard.

I'm getting out loads right now, I went to a nature reserve and saw Avocets, Swallows and Sand Martins.... Spring is here in the U.K.!!!