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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I’ll tell you something that has worked for me, and it’s the only thing that works.

Music.

Learn enough to improvise and just dive into it. Today I fastforwarded through three straight hours banging drumsticks on plastic buckets at work. I can make whole days disappear just playing my guitar. I disappear completely and just get lost in the sound. It puts me in a trance and I forget I was ever a person.

It might not work for you, but wouldn’t it be rad if it did?

And don’t think it’s too late to learn. My ex sat down at a piano bench at 26 and said, “I want to learn this.” So she did. About a year later she said, “I’d like to learn to play your guitar.” She learned to play it and that’s what she did every evening for years.

Nothing takes me out of this world like playing music.