> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://pete.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Being OK - URL: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/being-ok/ - Published: 2024-06-16T13:00:39.000Z - Updated: 2024-06-16T13:00:39.000Z - Description: My issues are getting in the way of my plans to live. I'm tired, but I have to remember the year theme for 2024. "Being OK". - Author: Pete Carr - Tags: #HelloComputer, HelloComputer, acceptance, Year of OK --- # Being OK I had plans this year. Not many, but there were a few big things I wanted to do. I hoped to live, that’s the main one. Over the past few years I’ve been doing big challenges like climbing a [mountain at night](https://petecarr.net/climbing-mount-snowdon-going-up/), [running a marathon](https://petecarr.net/post-liverpool-marathon-update/), [being photographed for a national newspaper article on anxiety](https://pete.news/hellocomputer/being-interviewed-for-a-national-newspaper-about-anxiety/), or [skinny dipping in a cold Welsh lake](https://pete.news/hellocomputer/be-bold-be-brave-be-courageous/). When I’m on my deathbed I want to look back and know that I lived rather than regretted. That was my plan for 2024, to live. I was going to swim the River Mersey as my big challenge. Could I overcome the anxiety of swimming far away from land in strong currents? Could I become fit enough to do so? That was my aim. Unfortunately, I find myself doing 20–30 minutes of exercise and spending the rest of the day, sometimes two days, recovering. Covid-19 has kicked my arse. When it’s not that I’m having a gout flareup or a migraine. 2024 just isn’t coming together. It’s only June so I should give myself a break. There are still 6 months left in which to do something. Perhaps something that isn’t overly physical so I don’t pass out midway through? There’s plenty of time left in the year. So I should give myself a break. Stop seeing what I’ve missed and look to what I could do. Maybe even be OK with doing nothing grand this year and instead getting lots of little things done? It’s [my year of being OK](https://pete.news/hellocomputer/yearly-theme-for-2024/). That should be enough. --- ![A series of large red doors stand at the entrance to an ornate school building.](https://pete.news/content/images/2024/06/L1100546.jpg) A series of large red doors stand at the entrance to an ornate school building. --- ## Transporter room - [Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They’re Taught How Their Brains Work | Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/) - [No Web Without Women](https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/) - [How ‘The Acolyte’ Wove Queerness — and Lesbian Space Witches — Into ‘Star Wars’ | Them](https://www.them.us/story/the-acolyte-star-wars-lesbian-space-witches-queerness-the-force) - [Trans+ History Week celebrates exciting new immersive experience -](https://diva-magazine.com/2024/06/13/trans-history-week-outernet/) - [Queer Election Watch: where do the different political parties stand on support and care for trans+ youth? -](https://diva-magazine.com/2024/06/13/queer-election-watch-trans-youth/) - [‘The rhythm of life beats in these images’: Meet the winners of Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 - 1854 Photography](https://www.1854.photography/2024/06/the-rhythm-of-life-beats-in-these-images-meet-the-winners-of-portrait-of-humanity-vol-6/) - [Drag artists unite to get out the vote, babes | Huck](https://www.huckmag.com/article/drag-artists-unite-to-get-out-the-vote-babes-crystal) - [Gone Swimming, With Tara Booth](https://kottke.org/24/06/gone-swimming-with-tara-booth) --- ![A man cycles away from the camera down a lane in Bruges. On the right side is a canal and on the left a series of nice looking houses. There are lots of trees.](https://pete.news/content/images/2024/06/Bruges-1008791-pete-carr.jpg) A man cycles away from the camera down a lane in Bruges. On the right side is a canal and on the left a series of nice looking houses. There are lots of trees. --- --- ![A crop of two homes in Bruges. In between is a beautiful brick roof, and in the distance is a church spire.](https://pete.news/content/images/2024/06/L1008788.jpg) A crop of two homes in Bruges. In between is a beautiful brick roof, and in the distance is a church spire.