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This is the time of year when the thought of buying gifts is swirling around in the heads of many.\u00a0 I know that I should really start getting ready to purchase things for the numerous people in my life that I\u2019d want to give gifts to, and at least I can say that I\u2019ve already started drawing up battle plans for things I think I\u2019d like to try and get for others.<\/span><\/p>\n Conversely, I\u2019ve been asked by several to provide a list of things that I\u2019d want as gifts.\u00a0 But no matter how much I try and think about things I want or even try to put together lists of things that I want, I simply can\u2019t, and I struggle tremendously; mostly on account of the fact that when the day is over, I\u2019m just a person who doesn\u2019t have much of want, for well, things.<\/span><\/p>\n However that doesn\u2019t change the fact that I\u2019m still pressured to put together a list anyway, because I\u2019m fortunate enough to have people in my life that care about me enough to want to get me things for the holidays, which puts me in a position of where I struggle and get anxious and stressed out because I just can\u2019t think of reasonable things that I want, that aren\u2019t like expensive $400+ power tools or wrestling belts.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, I can\u2019t really think of a more stupid reason to get stressed and anxious about, oh, people want to buy me shit, why can\u2019t I think of anything<\/em>??<\/span><\/p>\n And yet, here I am, sitting in front of my computer when I should be working, with like 15 tabs open to various eCommerce sites, trying to think of anything at all that I\u2019d really want.\u00a0 It\u2019s getting to a point where I try and delve into the things that I still do on a regular basis like run, and then I get choice paralysis, because there\u2019s like 50 gozillion options of compression gear, socks and other things, and then I get frustrated and end up with nothing at all.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I used to think Brack Fridays were good for getting clothing, but over the last few years, I\u2019ve bought lots of clothing and in the world of pandemic where I sparsely leave my house much less need any clothing at all, I\u2019m at a point where there\u2019s little reason to expand my wardrobe more than it is currently, so that takes clothes off the table, even as lame as it might seem to be asking for shit like sweaters, socks and button-ups.<\/span><\/p>\n I rarely game anymore, and the things that I do play are mobile games that it\u2019s pointless to consider getting me in-game money with, because I just sit on it and hoard, because I\u2019m a cheap F2P player in everything I play, so I wouldn\u2019t bother asking for any of that.\u00a0 Computer stuff isn\u2019t a great idea, considering I\u2019m perfectly content with a five year old Macbook and a PC that\u2019s from 2011, that barely get used for things other than surfing the internet, brogging and pretty inconsequential things.<\/span><\/p>\n The few ideas that I did have, in regards to looking for some gear from the Braves or Virginia Tech, never really pan out, because I\u2019d like to get workout apparel, and if they even make it at all, it\u2019s horrifically gaudy or it\u2019s not sold anymore, because I\u2019m apparently always 2-3 years late from when anything I would\u2019ve wanted was available.\u00a0 Hulkamania compression shirt?\u00a0 Stopped being sold four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a part of me that thinks about asking for nothing but a boatload of lottery tickets, since one thing I\u2019d really like is to win a lottery so that I didn\u2019t have to work anymore, but considering the 1-in-350 million odds of winning instant retirement amounts of money, a conflicting part of me would be quite sad to have let the holidays pass without anything substantial out of it, so that kind of takes that idea off the table too.<\/span><\/p>\n So basically, I can\u2019t think of shit that I actually want.\u00a0 My wants are generally either too expensive, or too abstract, and not singular items that can be put into gift boxes or bags and presented to me on Christmas.\u00a0 I already feel like my house is closing in on me from the things that we do have, and I\u2019m a big proponent against clutter, without trying to Marie Kondo the shit out of my home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Really what I\u2019d like more of on a day-to-day basis is time, but as many philosophers and people with brains out there have already pointed out, no amount of money could ever buy more time, but damn if I didn\u2019t have a fuckton more money, than I could cut out the things in my life like work, to where I could have more time, to do things that I\u2019d really want to do, which often times feels like it\u2019s gravitating towards wanting to do more shit with my hands like build things, but I need time and a whole bunch of hardware in order to get started with it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the time of year when the thought of buying gifts is swirling around in the heads of many.\u00a0 I know that I should really start getting ready to purchase things for the numerous people in my life that I\u2019d want to give gifts to, and at least I can say that I\u2019ve already … Continue reading I shouldn\u2019t be stressed out about 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