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Find something you like doing for YOU and do something to give back to the community. Join a running club, knitting group, learn to climb or cook. And then find a local charity and go hand out sandwiches to homeless people on Saturday mornings or make blankets to donate to the NICU. Volunteer work/giving to others is a proven way lift your own mood...because you're helping other people. And then finding your own hobby helps to focus on our own goals and journey instead of everyone else's facebook highlight reel.
Remember, you can never go back but you can go forward. What hobbies do you enjoy? Can you join some social clubs for these activities?
If career is not your priority anymore, take a pause and reshift life focus, travel more, go out to meet new people and you soon realize there’s a whole new world out there. Take care of yourself, your mental, your physical well being are the most important thing in later life because without a healthy mind and body, we can’t even perform at work.
Might sound too simple. What helped me (divorced, stacked at home during Covid): I started walking with a casual friend in a park next to home. She wanted to shave off some extra weight. I didn’t even own a pair of sneakers at a time:). I never had a luxury of going out for an hour in a middle of the day if it were not a working lunch with colleagues. Now six year later it is my saver! I do it twice a week, once by myself as I’m very fast walker and do it for my cardio and once with whoever is available. I have a group ranging from 4 to 6 people at a time who live nearby and also like to do it. We walk, we talk, we laugh. Sometimes discussing kids problems, town affairs, movies, books, politics, depends on a person. Some of these people became very close friends, some are just nice neighbors. But we all enjoy doing this social activity, even I though for me there is almost no cardio on these walks :)
One of my colleague is in the same boat as you. Maybe I can get you both connected? Dm me
That sounds difficult. Does your workplace have any mental/emotional health resources you can leverage? Might help to talk to someone, those resources can be awesome. Hang in there. Finding things that you enjoy doing outside of work that make you feel happy might help as well.