need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

merrittk.com • 38 days ago

need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up

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genheim.bsky.social•38 days ago

Sylvia plath's fig tree. One fig is a professor, one an olympian, and we find ourselves sitting at the base of the tree wanting each and every one of them, but choosing one means losing all the rest, and as we sit there unable to decide, the figs all wrinkle and fall to the ground at our feet

prionflux.bsky.social•37 days ago

a fun thing about the fig tree is

after she wrote that, she ate some food and felt better and thought

"maybe I was just hungry"

billthecat71.bsky.social•38 days ago

She was always such a ray of sunshine.

eddieakiba.bsky.social•37 days ago

Sounds like a classic case of Doogie Munchausen Syndrome. Symptoms include early-onset existential dread and a yearning for self-fulfillment upon realizing this little shit lied to get into medical school and is now the country's youngest surgeon. I mean, look at him. He probably used ChatGPT.

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scotchwaifus.bsky.social•38 days ago

Lets just call it "Twilighting"

brokenarmsgordon.bsky.social•37 days ago

First instinct was it had to be something in the "dread" family, but maybe the German "sehnsucht"? Literally "grief-longing sickness."

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earational.bsky.social•38 days ago

Don't worry, by your late 40s you sort of skim through that part to focus on also only having like 12 years to save a million dollars.

jennyazoth.bsky.social•37 days ago

It's definitely called merrittitis

whenthesuncorrupts.bsky.social•38 days ago

I feel this frfr ;-;

pillowfort.bsky.social•38 days ago

it's just called pushing 40

merrittk.com•38 days ago

im 29

pillowfort.bsky.social•38 days ago

we all are

invincibletoast.com•38 days ago

Jesus Christ, man

pillowfort.bsky.social•38 days ago

he can't help you with this one

saramchenry.bsky.social•38 days ago

somewhere someone has given it a cutesy name like "sunset scaries" or "dusk depresh"

thisisyubs.bsky.social•38 days ago

I find comfort that a lot of great works of art and works of music were made as a side thing that people just happened to while working their day jobs. They just happened to get lucky enough to get enough attention.
See The Hobbit

joshdobbin.bsky.social•38 days ago

Multiversanxiety? Like the idea that a different version of you in the universe next door might be having a better time of it all?

spooniechels.bsky.social•37 days ago

A weird form of FOMO?

soupcansteffans.bsky.social•38 days ago

Early onset midlife crisis

mrthursday.bsky.social•38 days ago

First it was the midlife crisis, then the quarter life crisis, now we have the 3/8 life crisis.

soupcansteffans.bsky.social•38 days ago

See if we can't get it down to just Crisis

mrthursday.bsky.social•38 days ago

Life: crisis

dangitkyle.bsky.social•37 days ago

too bad "sundowning" is taken

rhabdos.bsky.social•38 days ago

Dude, I feel this. I have 3 book ideas stewing, 2 songs that need written, Need to create AND edit / post more content to my woodworking channel, AND AND AND! I'm trying to get things done so I can quit my teaching job and work for myself but I dunno man. Lack of inspiration? motivation? FEAR?

arlieth.com•38 days ago

fomourning?

tracereading.bsky.social•37 days ago

feel like this is tangentially related to impostor syndrome.

codyyarbrough.bsky.social•38 days ago

https://youtu.be/mDsqpeiTqg8?si=8pDJQD_nAkL2_Cz7

haruruchandesu.bsky.social•38 days ago

torschlusspanik?

lots42.bsky.social•37 days ago

Whatever it is, this strikes a lot of people. I learned long ago that when the sun descends so does my mood.

ringout.bsky.social•38 days ago

Is that not normal? What if i feel that all the time?

davidbmajors.bsky.social•38 days ago

you mean the feeling that's worst on a sunday, yeah?

boodoo.co•38 days ago

the kids are calling it "hangry"

cheriemarcel.bsky.social•37 days ago

Five o’clock

johnperich.com•38 days ago

you've got those night thoughts https://bsky.app/profile/johnperich.com/post/3kkjig3tr4k2j

floydnine.bsky.social•38 days ago

Ganja might help. Uhm. I don't have that problem though. Some nights its like, "Fuckin' what? 2am? Its tommorrow again. Fuck."
But, since I've had probobly 2 out of the last 5 years off (dad passed unexpectedly) I honestly enjoy getting up at 4am, watching the sun rise, and by noon, shits been done.

pearli.to•38 days ago

There’s gotta be a compound German word for it.

billthecat71.bsky.social•38 days ago

Abendambitionstrauer

captainhat.bsky.social•37 days ago

I think this is what Douglas Adams called the long, dark tea-time of the soul.

pedant.blue•38 days ago

Imposter Syndrome

madygcomics.bsky.social•38 days ago

i get it at 1:30 AM

karensuew.bsky.social•37 days ago

Stop worrying. (Says someone who does the same.) You're a human being -- not a human doing. We grew up in capitalist America. They want you out there making some dough -- and spending it. You've been conditioned to believe that a day that isn't non-stop action is another day shot to hell. It isn't.

lobster667.bsky.social•38 days ago

it sounds familiar 😬😔

yonderhillside.bsky.social•38 days ago

self-credulous inadequacy

big-iron.bsky.social•38 days ago

Oh shit why haven't I invented a new kind of stress

benefiatem.bsky.social•37 days ago

"ADHD" 😂

michaelpacholek.bsky.social•37 days ago

How about "Megret"? As in, my regrets about me.

billthecat71.bsky.social•38 days ago

The Evening Ambition Blues.

dosbilliam.bsky.social•38 days ago

Existential dread?