I really enjoyed this read yesterday, and thought about it for a while afterward. It's really good and honest. I honestly have no idea what to think about everything. There's lots of stuff pinging around my brain these days, but I'm loving hearing other people's honest experiences of everything, and I'm just wanting to listen and learn, and hear how everyone's doing. So thanks for this piece, and I'm glad you're able to block someone who can't see past their own pain and unhappiness to just appreciate these heartfelt reflections.
Thank you for this. I feel the same. Truthfully I’m just as wary of the people who fall on the same side of the political spectrum as I am of the opposition these days. Every time I see someone pointing and making proclamations about the heart of entire groups of people, it feels like that’s how evil wins.
I hear you, Julie. I detached from politics and outcomes years ago-for my mental health. I am working on a post about how I coped with this election through the lessons from sobriety-knowing and accepting what is in my control and what is not. Self care. I do care, it is just that I have accepted that barring becoming an activist full time, I was not going to change anything. Is this defeatist? Some may say, yes. I say it is playing the best D ever. I have become disgusted, disappointed and depressed with how each side views and speaks of and to the other. I have opened my mind to the other side not being evil-the other side is full of people I know and love. I can accept that they see things differently and this does not make them bad humans.
I am right there with you, Rosemary. Furthermore, I’m afraid to admit it. Like, somewhere in the world, someone is seeing this and calling my complacency the problem. People have rage inside that they’re aiming willy-nilly at anyone who doesn’t agree with everything that they believe. You and I don’t hold the salvation of humankind in our hands, and I think it’s okay and freeing and peaceful to accept that.
I see my current attitude toward politics/the state of the world as part of my emotional health and emotional sobriety-i.e. it is not in my control; almost nothing is-which is very different from not caring.
I really enjoyed this read yesterday, and thought about it for a while afterward. It's really good and honest. I honestly have no idea what to think about everything. There's lots of stuff pinging around my brain these days, but I'm loving hearing other people's honest experiences of everything, and I'm just wanting to listen and learn, and hear how everyone's doing. So thanks for this piece, and I'm glad you're able to block someone who can't see past their own pain and unhappiness to just appreciate these heartfelt reflections.
Thank you for this. I feel the same. Truthfully I’m just as wary of the people who fall on the same side of the political spectrum as I am of the opposition these days. Every time I see someone pointing and making proclamations about the heart of entire groups of people, it feels like that’s how evil wins.
I’m glad you wrote this today. Will probably be the best thing I read today.
Thank you. Got called a privileged Yt bitch for it by some psycho, so I’m glad it made your day better because I love you.
I hear you, Julie. I detached from politics and outcomes years ago-for my mental health. I am working on a post about how I coped with this election through the lessons from sobriety-knowing and accepting what is in my control and what is not. Self care. I do care, it is just that I have accepted that barring becoming an activist full time, I was not going to change anything. Is this defeatist? Some may say, yes. I say it is playing the best D ever. I have become disgusted, disappointed and depressed with how each side views and speaks of and to the other. I have opened my mind to the other side not being evil-the other side is full of people I know and love. I can accept that they see things differently and this does not make them bad humans.
I am right there with you, Rosemary. Furthermore, I’m afraid to admit it. Like, somewhere in the world, someone is seeing this and calling my complacency the problem. People have rage inside that they’re aiming willy-nilly at anyone who doesn’t agree with everything that they believe. You and I don’t hold the salvation of humankind in our hands, and I think it’s okay and freeing and peaceful to accept that.
I see my current attitude toward politics/the state of the world as part of my emotional health and emotional sobriety-i.e. it is not in my control; almost nothing is-which is very different from not caring.
Raising our cortisol levels. Yup. That’s what we have to look forward to.