Well, happy birthday my friend - and sorry your Las Vegas trip was a bust. That said, assuming you just don't have a cold or something, I wouldn't worry too much about it, because we all feel that "blah" at times. This too shall pass my friend. All the best to you!

Only been to Vegas once (luckily) and it was a stopover for somewhere else. Funny thing it was a time when the Pope had just put out a book with his picture on the cover. In one of the waiting rooms were shelves lined with the books juxtapositioned with slots.

Happy birthday

I think this is a feeling that will hit us all on our birthdays. My daughters is the 15th. I should ask her how she feels.

Happy Belated Birthday.

I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your last trip as much as you expected. Too much of a good thing, perhaps? Maybe you might want to consider about doing something a bit different. Take a cruise or try Atlantic City instead of Vegas. We all go in cycles, you may have just taken this last trip during a slump. Unless you are experiencing something more of a trend, this one trip probably shouldn't be taken as the trend. Your next trip may be the best ever.

I have been to Vegas once, and it wasn't my cup of tea. Of course, since gambling is the preferred pastime there and I have always had to budget every nickel, it wouldn't be my thing. I do understand the depression, though, and it's really rough when the things you have depended on to bring you joy stop doing that. I hope you can find a new and delightful diversion. Don't let the numbing win.

Keep having fun , nourish the inner child, you'll be fine . Happy Birthday

Belated happy birthday!

Personally I don’t understand the lure of Las Vegas because all that vice in that sad ugly town in the middle of a scorching hot desert is depressing to me. You can’t tell if it’s night or day in those casinos. However if that’s your repetitive cup of tea, it sounds like you made it boring on purpose by not seeking out your normal go to delights. I can understand because it’s been a rough year or five for Americans. I’m jealous because I’m still too scared to travel and my bucket list is collecting dust.

I find a brisk walk or a drive, a good night’s sleep, a wank, and some happy music cheers me right up. I have also read if you smile, even if you don’t feel like it, it tricks your brain into thinking you are happy.

I’m going for a mani/pedi and a massage today so that always helps too.

They say some days you just have to take life one day at a time. I say some days it is one hour at a time, and other days it is just one foot in front of the other and that's okay. On the upside, everything is temporary and you WILL feel better.

It's a normal functioning of age that the things you enjoy change over time. This experience may be an aberration or perhaps you are transitioning. Outside of mental illness (which is treatable), the great numbing is a myth and not wanting to die inside is the best evidence that you won't. Speaking for myself, I have had periods where I had to work hard to find reasons to be happy and to find things that I enjoy. The good news is that no matter what happens around you, your right to life comes from within.

Everybody needs a little help now and then. Everybody. Exercise your power to reach out to those you think have something to offer you, be it family, people you admire or professional people. Developing the strength to ask for support is a skill that will benefit you forever. Chin up. Thank you for posting this.

Maybe try traveling to somewhere unusual or unexpected. Vegas seems ho-hum to me. Maybe it's just me, but try learning a new skill or hobby in a new place. It works for me. This year I got on a plane for the first time in 45 years, with someone I'd barely met, and traveled to a foreign country. You better believe that set my soul on fire! Go way outside of the box. Oh, and Happy Birthday!!!!

I'm sorry your birthday sucked. This has dragged on so long, and some things may have changed forever, and I think seeing someplace you love still suffering from Covid modifications has to be depressing. I think a lot of us are suffering from that type of fatigue right now, and we are just tired of the idea that the world we knew is still so far out of grasp. But you are young, and vibrant, and persistent, so just wait this malaise out, treat yourself to something special, and know that eventually Las Vegas will return to a semblance of it's former glory, and you will want to be there when it does.

Happy Birthday! Let me know the next time you are going to LV and I will meet you there, so we can get into sone mischief!

"...come to the great numbing."
Or, maybe you are just having a blah episode. It happens sometimes. Moods come and go.
Or, maybe you caught some low-grade bug, just enough to sap your energy and make everything seem a bit more dull and drab and too much effort to bother.
If it continues too long, there are drugs for that...prescription ones.

gotta misbehave to have fun sometimes, or at least do something you don't expect of yourself. buy a drone, get an old car, get a tatoo, become a grill master....idk what, but don't just sit.