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  1. What if I told you that when I am older, I will likely suffer from dementia, because nowadays in my twenties I experience chronic loneliness issues or symptoms that people don't recognise. I wish it was easy to say that I am wealthy and happy, but no. Maybe this vent will be lost into the echo.

    #mentalhealth #loneliness #health #future #awareness #youth #aging #dementia #wellbeing #isolation #unseen #unheard #validation #truth #society #recognition #Malaysia #neuroscience #heartbreak #crisis

  2. I remember when your GP wasn’t just a name on a list. Care felt woven into daily life, unremarkable, but steady.

    Now is different. Text messages arrive asking for feedback when human interation just hasn’t connected. Appointments are hard to come by, faces change, everyone is a stranger. The system still functions, but the quieter, human part, has thinned out.

    It’s easy to wonder if this is just what happens with age: that the world hasn’t changed, only the vantage point. But there are real shifts too, busier lives, stretched services, and communities that don’t always overlap the way they once did. Familiarity has been replaced by efficiency; recognition by process.

    Yet, the memory of how it felt remains clear. Not grand gestures, just small ones: being remembered, being asked, being noticed. Those things still matter. Perhaps they always will, even if they’ve become harder to find in the places we once expected them.

    #Fediverse #mastodon #Unseen

  3. A quotation from James Howell

    He that gropes in the dark, finds that which he would not.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/82798/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #darkness #discovery #finding #grab #grope #night #reach #search #surprise #unseen #hiding #lurking

  4. Today I shaved off 6 months of beard related growth, leaving a wizard like pointy bit. Not one person noticed... not even the wife or daughter. #unseen #unheard #beard

  5. A quotation from The Bible

    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
     
    [Ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Hebrews 11. 1 [KJV (1611)]

    More info about this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/80282/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #hebrews #assurance #belief #certainty #conviction #faith #hope #unproven #unseen

  6. The #Unseen #Forces Driving #Deep-Sea #Climate Extremes : Medium

    #Bug-size #Robots that fly and flip could #Pollinate #Futuristic #Farms#Crops : Tech Review

    What Happened to #Mars’ Lost #Atmosphere? New #Clues May Explain Why It Disappeared. : Pop Mechanics

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  7. #Watching #Unseen (in australia, on netflix) Two seasons of six episodes each.

    It took 30 minutes to win me over, but this show really hooked me in.

    It has received mixed ratings, which is not a problem in itself… another equally important question, imo, is whether or not it’s entertaining — after all, if we only watched perfect shows, we would be running in marathons all the time, not sitting on a couch watching the tele.

    The story begins in Cape Town, where the main character, Zenzi Mwale is a cleaner, searching for her missing husband. She is trapped by truly shit circumstances and, like too many people in the world, she has little income and is at the mercy of assholes. There’s nothing entertaining about constantly having to think <there but for the grace of god>, but after about 30 minutes the story soon moved beyond my own reality into something i can’t imagine happening to me. I didn’t feel so helpless about Zenzi, then, and cared about where the story would go next. I’m not going to share a trailer here, because i think it contains spoilers.

    Cape Town and South Africa are not really <characters> in this story.
    I remember when Sense8 first appeared, and there was a lot of opinion about whether it was rubbish or not. People from India were outraged by the stereotypes, and people from Kenya/ Africa were outraged by the representation of Africa, and so on and so on… and so on. (Okay, the australian was stereotyped too, but really, i think we deserved it…)
    To some extent, problems with representation are a sign of *under*-representation — we see so little of some worlds that they become foreground instead of background. No one story can be all things to all people.
    In the end, Sense8 had positives and negatives, and some people loved it and some people didn’t. I think Unseen is a bit like that — there is some hammy acting (not much, and it’s probably because of the writing), but on the whole it’s not meant to be a documentary about south africa (or zimbabwe) it’s just a story that’s reasonably well made.
    This is not a story about a vulnerable person, it’s a david and goliath thriller with goodies and baddies, and Zenzi is a much stronger character than you might think at first glance. Gail Mabalane does a brilliant and convincing job as Zenzi.

    There is some violence, but not a lot of gore — which is to say, the violence is of a sort we have become inured to, and it is there to drive the story, rather than a central feature of the show itself.

    There wasn’t a lot about it that i found annoying — no excessively loud and intrusive soundtrack music, no gratuitous sexualised violence (taylor sheridan i’m complaining about you) no message that free markets make everyone free and similar BS, so it was different, and i really enjoyed it.

  8. This also unfortunately coincided with seeing a report of one in a similar position.

    However, in this instance, it resulted in a completely different outcome.

    They received a massive outpouring of concern, compassion, empathy, and financial support.

    The difference? Replace multiple disabilities with recovering from #cancer.

    #DisabledBySociety #Unseen

  9. A quotation from John Adams

    The poor man’s conscience is clear; yet he is ashamed. His character is irreproachable, yet he is neglected and despised. He feels himself out of the sight of others, groping in the dark. Mankind takes no notice of him: he rambles and wanders unheeded. In the midst of a crowd, at church, in the market, at a play, at an execution or coronation, he is in as much obscurity as he would be in a garret or a cellar. He is not disapproved, censured, or reproached: he is only not seen. This total inattention is to him, mortifying, painful and cruel. […] To be wholly overlooked, and to know it, are intolerable.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Essay (1790), “Discourses on Davila: A Series of Papers on Political History,” No. 5, Gazette of the United States

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/18189/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #destitute #homeless #ignored #invisibility #obscurity #poor #poverty #unseen