Word: uselessness
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Depression often descends when people feel they are a burden to their families or when they feel useless. In studies with older subjects that go back to the 1950s and '60s, personal goals and structure in everyday life were found to be vital to maintaining mental health. Often depression can be overcome by engaging in purposeful activities such as continued paid work, volunteer work, education, hobbies and social contacts. Regular exercise, even walking, is also effective...
...first-ever ski lesson at the facility at Mt. Van Hoevenburg. The instructor was very patient and professional during the hour that I displayed no detectable ability on skis. Whatever experience I had from my first largely imaginary foray into the sport in the '80s was worse than useless. The specific technique used in biathlon, called "skating," proved immeasurably elusive for me, despite the fact that I was in the hands of a veteran coach in a one-on-one lesson. By the end of the day I had showed only a few fleeting glimpses of competence at this technique...
...NEXT: One day before Rock in Rio. Plus, a little less stream of consciousness and useless annoying jokiness and a little more about the bands that will be performing...
...communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this one--the very model...
...interesting, if uncomfortable, bit of live drama, as for precious minutes the fumbling reporters tap-danced, giving useless definitions of certain Latin phrases as if to demonstrate that, even if they couldn't tell us who our next president was going to be, they were still worth their paychecks. On CNN, Roger Cossack seemed particularly lost and pitiable, hemming and hawing as Judy Woodruff pressed him on whether the decision ended the Gore campaign or not that it would be "irresponsible" to say anything conclusive before he'd read the whole opinion...