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Two trees in my backyard are dropping all their leaves as if it were already the end of Fall. I think it is due to the hot weather and lack of rainfall. Some of the leaves on the other trees are changing color and falling too, but at a slower rate. I feel like watering the yard, to try to keep everything from dying on me. But we have a water restriction in place so I would need to wait til after 10pm tonight to do so. I don't have a sprinkler or a watering can yet, just a hose. It wouldn't even reach around to the back yard anyway. Hmmm.
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I bought some "black salt" aka "kala namak", an Indian culinary item. I was rather dubious upon smelling it - it contains sulfuric minerals and therefore smells/tastes like cooked egg yolks. But it is actually quite tasty/savoury in cooked beans. I suppose an eggy taste isn't really a bad thing; it's just strange if you aren't expecting it.
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When I'm in a bad mood, things that bother me are more bothersome than they normally are.
But also, when things bother me, my mood is more likely to go down than otherwise.
When I'm in a bad mood, I feel like I must get rid of the things which are bothering me, because they are so unpleasant. When I'm not in such a bad mood, things don't seem as unpleasant, and I don't feel as much of a need to do anything about the situation.
Part of life-experience is learning to distinguish whether something is bothering me a lot, because it is truly very bothersome to me, or whether it is because I am already in a bad mood. Part of experience is knowing that even though something may still bother me the next day or week or month, it may not matter as much to me. Or maybe it only bothers me a lot when I am actually experiencing the unpleasant stimuli.
Part of experience is knowing that one can become acclimatized to things which once seemed quite unpleasant.
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I bought some "black salt" aka "kala namak", an Indian culinary item. I was rather dubious upon smelling it - it contains sulfuric minerals and therefore smells/tastes like cooked egg yolks. But it is actually quite tasty/savoury in cooked beans. I suppose an eggy taste isn't really a bad thing; it's just strange if you aren't expecting it.
.
When I'm in a bad mood, things that bother me are more bothersome than they normally are.
But also, when things bother me, my mood is more likely to go down than otherwise.
When I'm in a bad mood, I feel like I must get rid of the things which are bothering me, because they are so unpleasant. When I'm not in such a bad mood, things don't seem as unpleasant, and I don't feel as much of a need to do anything about the situation.
Part of life-experience is learning to distinguish whether something is bothering me a lot, because it is truly very bothersome to me, or whether it is because I am already in a bad mood. Part of experience is knowing that even though something may still bother me the next day or week or month, it may not matter as much to me. Or maybe it only bothers me a lot when I am actually experiencing the unpleasant stimuli.
Part of experience is knowing that one can become acclimatized to things which once seemed quite unpleasant.