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Carol H Tucker
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cabin fever
Today is the 6th day of the 16th week, the 17th day of the 4th month, the 108th day of 2020, and:
- Bat Appreciation Day
- Blah, Blah, Blah Day
- Ellis Island Family History Day
- Herbalist Day
- independence Day - Syria from France in 1946
- International Ford Mustang Day
- International Haiku Poetry Day
- Malbec World Day
- National Cheeseball Day
- National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day
- National Crawfish Day
- National Donate Life (Blue and Green) Day
- National Kickball Day
- Nothing Like a Dame Day
- World Hemophilia Day
Quote of the day:
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The term cabin fever is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “irritability, listlessness, and similar symptoms resulting from long confinement or isolation indoors” and is usually used specifically to angst during the winter. An offshoot of this is seasonal affective disorder [SAD], which seems to be specific to the quantity of sunlight at certain times of the year, although the vast amount of sufferers are impacted during the late fall and winter months when the sun is not visible for long and the light is pale when it does show. Those who live in the harsher climes of long winters are especially aware of this seasonal disorder and over many centuries have developed coping mechanisms to address it. So, feeling cooped up can be a real issue, there is no denying that
According to Wikipedia, a person who suffers from cabin fever can be described “… as stir-crazy, derived from the use of stir to mean 'prison'” which then “… can lead the sufferer to make irrational decisions that could potentially threaten their life or the life of the group with whom they are confined.” Perhaps that explains the insanity of those protesting being asked to shelter at home to stop the rapid spread of COVID-19? Neither the angst of folks who cannot stand staying home, nor the greed of Rich Uncle Pennybags [who did indeed have a monocle at some point], can change the fact that flattening the curve is the first priority.
On a personal level, I still remember the first time I spent an extended amount in my apartment with Frank – it was over a holiday weekend and I did not set foot outside my door from when I got home from work on Friday night until Tuesday morning, and I was never so glad to leave for work before or since. Since then, seventeen years have passed, but more importantly, I have developed a robust 2nd life and have learned to live in virtual reality.
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