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Whenever I feel like this is the worst timeline, I watch a historical video on like the year without sun in the 1300s, or the Justinian Plague, or the ice age. Just something that gives me perspective on the fact that we as humans are resilient enough to take on very trying times. We persist, it’s the one constant.
I’ve also been trying to take an optimistic nihilist approach to life, where I focus on doing things that bring me and the people I love joy because nothing else really matters. Nihilism doesn’t have to be empty, it just means you’re a small grain of sand in so something vast it doesn’t matter what you do, so you can choose what has meaning and what matters to you.
I love this perspective
I dont want to be a downer but… the historical context schtick doesnt work for me. This idea that people have survived worse, or just as bad as what we are experiencing now rings hollow when I sit with it for a moment longer and acknowledge how many people DIDNT SURVIVE the dark times in the not so distant past. And maybe this is a side effect of growing up in new york in the 80’s surrounded by queer adults who were regularly burying their loved ones… but I cannot distance myself from the reality that lives are being lost around us every day as a result of decisions that people with more power than any of us are making. Not everyone survives dark times, and while you can only do so much, please try to do something besides reducing your screen time to make yourself feel better. The discomfort exists for a reason.
I worry that the failure to really look what’s happening in the face and grapple with it in a practical way (and that means individuals, the media, our electeds, etc.) is going to be our undoing. Yes, we need to stay sane, but we don’t have the option to not engage.
Really try hard to limit/budget your consumption of social media and news. Increase getting outdoors in nature, natural beauty, art, music, and be with people or do activities that are fun or relaxing.
I don’t think the human brain as supposed to know almost in real time every horrible thing happening in the world, every awful thing going on, being said, being done in our country and around the world simultaneously.
I definitely am not saying put your head in sand and be oblivious- but do what you can to help (donate, volunteer, etc) but also give yourself permission to shut off, to feel joy, to relax.
During the pandemic, I went on newspapers.com and started to read newspaper articles from the time of the Spanish flu. I then continued to read articles from before, during and after the great depression. It showed me that the problems we have today are not unique to us nor to our time. Disagreement in politics are not unique to our time. A belief that the world is ending or that our democracy or our country are doomed are not unique to our time.
I was actually quite surprised at how well written the articles were back then, journalism certainly was a different beast back then. But opinion pieces, political cartoons, they could be downright nasty toward someone they didn’t agree with.
It’s a useful exercise to remind ourselves that despite everything we think is wrong, most of us live in warm homes with good food and reasonable health. We get to do work that we find interesting and fun. And if we would stop our constant diet of negativity and social media, we just might find that there’s a lot of good things to focus on in the world.
I feel this sometimes but then I remember that my mom grew up doing nuclear drills in case the world actually ended and now she’s living her best boomer retired life. That helps me stay positive thinking it might not turn out as badly as it seems like it might
Can you even imagine? There’s a street by my house where there is a fallout shelter sign outside a bakery. Every time I see it I think about what that must’ve felt like.
I am currently going on 6 months of unemployment and two years without one steady job. I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m ready to frankly give up on my life at this point. Thankfully I’m single — well it would be nice to have a partner to rely on but dating is horrible — but I don’t have people dependent on me. Ready to go 6 feet under
In short, I’m scared and I’m like what’s the point anymore. I tried, you tried, we all tried.
Don’t do it 🫶 You never know when things can turn around!
A walk a day and antidepressants helps me a lot.
Good luck!
I got rid of almost all the socials. I limit my news consumption. The struggle is real. Try and adjust your focus I guess. Big hugs! ❤️
I find it especially hard to do this work in this environment. On some level im like - whelp, if the execs want to replace us with AI then fine, Im tired of scraping by to make their money anyway.
Well, you get to decide what you focus on and how happy you are. Our grandparents survived the great depression and multiple wars. Mine always told me you have to make your own happiness and create your own luck. I follow that advice and it’s led to a career that I love and I’m successful in.
Same :(
Rising Star
Hang in there ❤️