Yeh unfortunately it's not like Duolingo where you have streak freezes for the days where connectivity is flaky or something else major comes up that prevents you from getting around to it XD
I guess it's a case of how important is it to you in the grand scheme as while it would take you a while to build back up and continue if you lost it, it's not like the streak is as important as the actual process. It's just a number that works to hack people's brains for habit building because monkey brain likes big number go up or something.
Telling someone to remember there's worse off people is a blunt context shift usually intended to kick them out of a mental rut/depression spiral (and occasionally to tell someone to stop whining and feeling sorry for themselves and get on with it if they've been doing it for a while). Telling someone to remember that there's worse people out there is a pathetic reason to excuse awful behaviour.
The stroke was definitely on the extreme end of things. The insidious up/down cycles are otherwise relatable.
Hope your connectivity held :)
Has Duolingo helped you learn much? I have never tried it.
This is how I see it, but it has also become (weirdly) part of the process, because of the brain hack for habit - I am a monkey!
See! An asymmetry! I only killed seven people, the Nazis were much worse! :D
Yep. We all go through them, but it feels like that line from the Lion King with Zazu talking about Scar - "There's one in every family, two in mine" :)