50 Memes For When There’s Nothing Left To Do But Laugh, Posted On The “Mad Sad Not Good” IG Page (New Pics)
Its intensity varies, but sadness is a normal human emotion that fills us in upsetting, painful, or disappointing situations.
Feeling blue doesn't necessarily mean you are doing something wrong. Rather, it helps us come to terms with the harsh side of reality and move on.
And the Instagram account 'Mad Sad Not Good' is trying to normalize it.
Using the universal language of memes, it shares relatable jokes about everyday struggles, fostering a sense of solidarity and understanding among its followers.
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i can't be the only one who vaguely misses 2020, in a weird sort of way. edit: the amount of people upvoting this is sad, i'm sorry so many people are so stressed with life right now. stay safe, i love you all, try to prioritize yourselves 🩵
I really enjoyed quarantine, would go back in a heartbeat
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Spoken by someone who was not homeschooling 3 kids and trying to work a full time job at the same time…
While queuing for groceries for a household of people with special medical diets and having to go to multiple shops to make it work. People talking about how lovely it is to take walks and shop at their local artisan bakery when my area is all broken glass, trash and dog poo. They knocked half our shopping centre down just before the lockdowns so it's actually STILL not been rebuilt cos a protected species moved in to the side that had been vacated but not demolished, so we didn't have artisan bakeries we had a single shop: a betting shop. I had a lot of healthcare delayed and I'm finally going to an appointment for a problem I developed in March 2020. The appointment is on Monday. Yes, this upcoming 2024 Monday.
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I had to work through quarantine and didn't quite get this glimpse. The roads were empty though.
Same. Made getting across Manhattan and through Chicago a lot faster.
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I worked in a hospital during the pandemic. Now way I will ever miss that time. I still have nightmares.
The real heroes of our time, thank you for your extremely hard work under awful conditions and pay!
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We had a baby and I started a new job just before it. It was the hardest time time of my life. Absolutely brutal. There was no dancing or making bread for me.
:-( yeah i dont like the way some people are making it sound like it was pure fun
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I liked the empty roads and the quiet. I didn't like my dad being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the April and not being able access the support he needed
there were fun parts, but mostly getting super depressed because i wasnt able to see friends and family because you were not supposed to cross the border (they obviously live in another country) and i missed going to concerts too much. I had to let my BF go to a friends funeral on his own. When another friend died, i did nothing but cry and cry and cry for a week. At a certain moment my BF desperately said "i wish i could take you somewhere to get your mind off of it but i cant even take you into town for a coffee or a nice meal" So yeah, no, i dont understand the way its glorified. And as an extra bonus, it brought up all the conspiracy idiots too. F**k that s**t.
This is a pretty simplistic, rose-colored view of an event that affected the entire world, and a lot of it in pretty rough ways. I agree there might have been a few good moments like this post describes, but it's hard to overlook the lost income for so many, the interruption to kids' education, massive medical staff burnout, and oh yeah, the millions of dead.
Essential worker here, I really can not envision a more opposite experience than my 2020 referring to a time make shift morgues were on the street in New York City. As a healthcare worker I witnessed the desperate loneliness people felt in their last moments before dying alone due to quarantine visitor restrictions. It has been a gut wrenching few years.
I was so looking forward to all this. Unfortunately my job never shut down. They even offered to pay for hotels if we were worried about bringing anything home to our families.
Life should be like….? So….someone else pays your bills, rent, provides food, etc? I’m struggling to understand here. To my knowledge those that have the lifestyle you describe were either royalty, owned slaves or were part of the fuedal system. If everyone did as you describe who builds the roads and grows the crops and keeps the lights on? How does this work? And who decides which members of the population work to support the rest? This reads a bit dystopian to me.
Bring back the quarantine! Pink dolphins were swimming in Venice, come on now! Homebodies unite!
Yeah, wfh half day, in the office the other half day. FT plus. No OT (salaried), but the lack of traffic was cool.
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I miss lockdown. So good for so many things. Should be an annual event, like Christmas
I still had to go to my essential job, but I do remember the peace of driving with no other cars on the road.
Ngl, I sorta miss the lockdown... though where I live, it was more of a "shutdown" that a full-on "lockdown". Don't miss the masks, though!
Who WERE all these people, who lacked jobs and yet had no financial concerns?
What I remember most of life during the Pandemic is working full-time at Costco trying not to b***h-slap all of the numbskull, self-entitled, rude, grasping fools who managed to forget even basic manners while they were in the store or in the parking lot. DO NOT MISS THOSE DAYS!!
This is hopelessly idealistic about what was actually happening at that time.
I was quite happy and content not seeing anyone for months, just my animals. Unfortunately I ran out of coffee and peanut butter after 4 months and had to go into town and see/deal with people/ ah. If it wasn't for clients and cashiers and curious people I will have lived like a hermit for 4 years on my homestead
I learned, like many virtual shut ins, could help so many others via my own experiences, and that I wasn’t wierd(er) than I thought.. mostly I learned to become creative again, just this time in a kitchen. Life doesn’t break us, we enhance each other. (Oddly I made it through the pandemic and finally contracted that gnarly little booger while in a long term care facility recovering from a traumatic lower body injury. )
I was locked in a flat with my two kids aged 2 and 4- it was absolutely exhausting. I was so jealous of people who said they were bored! On the other hand, my plight was nothing compared to that of healthcare and other frontline workers. When people said “we’re all in it together”… No, we weren’t. It was hugely different depending on your personal and financial circumstances.
On the other hand, keeping a kindergarten kid actively interested and involved in "kindergarten by zoom" while teaching and doing virtual physical therapy sessions with a two year old was an absolute nightmare.
Honestly I very much enjoyed quarantine. I'd been training for that my whole life.
Unless you were out of work, sick, dying or knew someone who was dying. But no, your sourdough starter was all that was going on in the world...
This is literally how life is in the Nordics. I live in Sweden and people have time for this and for their families. They get to actually go home and take care of their families. I wish Americans had this option!
I wasn't. I still had to work which I kind of glad even though it got very stressful at times. Didn't want to deal with unemployment or looing for another job.
I remember still the "autoloze zondag" from the seventies. Due to an oil crisis, people weren't allowed to drive on sundays. Even though that period was before the time of computers and cell phones, already people were drifting away from each other and the autoloze zondag brought them back together in doing little things close by. Why do humans need a crisis to go back to essentials of taking care of our homes, gardens and each other?
And then generative AI did the art better than we ever could straight after lockdowns finished?
The pandemic temporary broke the global capitalist economic system that we've been chained to for over 300 years... we got a glimpse of what life should be like after we progress away from capitalism
Life did not change at all where I live. No business closures and no social distancing rules. I worked, went to 2 weddings, bars, multiple large get-togethers, it was nice.
To learn more about the things that we feel, we contacted London-based psychiatrist and author of 'You Are Not Meant To Be Happy. So Stop Trying,' Rafa Euba.
"Sadness is a natural emotion that we are meant to experience during certain periods in our lives," he told Bored Panda. "It is normally intermittent, like all our other emotions, and will come and go depending on what's happening at any given time."
"Sadness is more persistent during periods of adaptation to a loss when it will help us gradually reset our mind in response to that loss," the psychiatrist added. "The sadness we feel when we fail to achieve a certain goal, or that associated with unrequited love, may also help us re-evaluate our ambitions and lower our expectations. Sadness makes us withdraw and reflect for a while, which may result in better planning."
Even though it can knock us down, we shouldn't mistake sadness for depression. "Sadness is an emotion, which often comes combined with other emotions, both negative (like anxiety) and positive," Euba highlighted. "Nostalgia, for instance, is a generally pleasant emotion, even though it includes within it an element of sadness."
"In contrast, depression is a clinical condition, an illness that needs to be treated," he said. "In depression, negative emotions spiral out of control, generating enormous suffering. A depressed person feels sad and anxious constantly and for long periods of time, and typically finds it difficult to sleep, or to enjoy anything in their lives."
"So while emotions are fleeting and have functions that help us live our lives, a depressive illness has no function. It is a malfunction."
It's difficult to say just how much sadness is normal, as there can be a lot of variation in how different people process emotions, but, for example, a survey of 2,000 British adults discovered that on average, they spend three months a year in a glum mood, equating to 96 days a year, or eight days each month.
Interestingly, the new year doesn't start on a good note either, with a quarter feeling at their lowest during January.
Top winter gloom inducers include the weather, shorter days with dark mornings and evenings, and feeling cold.
Spending time with friends and family is the top way people combat January blues, followed by listening to music, resting, and going outdoors.
That being said, the average person spends just under an hour a day outdoors in winter and estimates only 44 minutes of that is in direct sunlight.
Furthermore, one in five only gets between 1 and 15 minutes a day under the winter sun’s rays.
Connecting flights. Not everyone is flying to Cincinnati. Many of them are flying beyond Cincinnati. "Beyond Cincinnati" is the name of my new work in progress post-apocalypse novel.
But just as sadness is a natural emotion, so are its remedies. Dr. Shelley James, director at Age of Light Innovations, said that bright light, especially in the morning, can help boost your mood in three naturally powerful ways: by helping the brain to regulate mood hormones, supporting alertness, and making it easier to fall asleep.
James noted that simply getting outside into natural daylight can sometimes be enough to top up your mood, as it boosts your body even when the sun isn't breaking through, as well as giving you a chance to get a little exercise.
yes. this needs to be higher really. they're just convection ovens.
"If you feel sad occasionally, bear in mind that this is just a natural emotion that is very much a part of our lives," psychiatrist Rafa Euba added. "Think of it as 'mental weather,' a natural fluctuation that will pass soon and will probably be replaced by a different emotion."
"Remember too that despite what you see in social media, we are not really meant to be consistently happy. Humans will always struggle with intermittent difficult emotions, which are there because of a set of very powerful biological and evolutionary reasons, so they are not going to go away any time soon."
After reading “Dean’s Big Book of Answers” I cried when I didn’t understand how many years it was going to be before the Sun exploded, thinking it was going to be sooner. I don’t know if I would be as upset now!
However, if you suspect that you might be depressed, Euba advises you to seek professional help. "Treatment and therapy will help, and you will then be able to experience the normal range of human emotions (including occasional sadness) without the burden of your depression."
For more similar memes, check out our first publication on 'Mad Sad Not Good.'
One reason for this is because people in the past could not predict bad weather the way we can now, and one major reason for all the sunken ships is because they kept going through that area during hurricane season. They have about 6 hurricanes a year, usually between June and November
“If he watches Friends reruns one more time, Imma lose it.” (I proceed to watch another Friends rerun, wondering why I’m hearing screaming from the bushes outside).
My fun fact at one team building thing was "I work at the library" which would have been a super fun fact, if it wasn't a library staff team building thing.
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Bit rough that 63% of pandas find sad memes relatable. Pandas it will get better, hang in there and if you ever need someone to talk to we or me are here
Being human is hard. I’m glad I can commiserate with my fellow pandas
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I feel a little bit better knowing my fellow pandas are just like me about life failures.
Random but do you ever watch Cast Away and care more about Wilson than Tom Hanks? No? Just me?
Vivian, I have to watch Cast Away again now because I'm not sure.
Load More Replies... Bit rough that 63% of pandas find sad memes relatable. Pandas it will get better, hang in there and if you ever need someone to talk to we or me are here
Being human is hard. I’m glad I can commiserate with my fellow pandas
Load More Replies... I feel a little bit better knowing my fellow pandas are just like me about life failures.
Random but do you ever watch Cast Away and care more about Wilson than Tom Hanks? No? Just me?
Vivian, I have to watch Cast Away again now because I'm not sure.
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