The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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For me it's not really about the activities, but the times and places I've left behind. I often miss the easy serendipity of college, where I didn't need to create a partiful and blast reminders in order to get 10 people to show up to an event. Shit, I could get 10 on a tuesday with 1 message to a group chat, now everyone needs a week notice because they have plans and 30 minute drives and on-call at the smoke alarm installer (Not a joke, one friend literally has this job and gets called to drive 2-4 hours to fix the smoke alarms at big corporate campuses).
But we can't live in the past, and tbh I'm not sure I'd want a bunch of college student friends right now even if the age gulf it wouldn't be a little weird. My current guests never clog sinks with vomit and the incidence of awkward friend group damaging breakups is down a solid 50%.
I definitely do miss just being able to walk places and have events going on, but that's a choice I made in exchange for living somewhere I can actually afford a house, so c'est la vie.
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