My grandfather passed away in January… on his birthday.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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I'm not okay. I know my life isn't as bad as it could be. I feel like Covid was easier to get through because everything happening wasn't controllable in a grander sense. What's breaking me now is the fact that things clearly don't have to be this way. It's infuriating to watch so many people get away with being so colossally stupid. I can't get through a single day without having the overwhelming urge to slap sense into other people.
This won’t help fix anything, but you may want to consider giving yourself a few days a week where you actively avoid the news and anything related to it. It’s not like knowing about it will change anything for you in the immediate term, and even in the long term, enough other people have to wake up to it for anything to hope to happen and that’s probably still a ways off yet.. plus if it really matters it’ll still be in the news in 3 days when you get to it.
So if it doesn’t do any good to consume the negativity, maybe just don’t for a few days a week, and see how you feel.
For me it helped substantially. Nothing is fixed, of course, but ignorance really is bliss sometimes. There’s just so much shit coming down the chute that my tiny little dump truck of a brain can’t unload it fast enough and I just get super overwhelmed by the sheer volumes of shit.. but if I pick and choose what to load into my bucket in the first place, or space out the release of the shit chute contents, well that’s more manageable.
I hope things improve for you (and everyone for that matter) random internet friend!
I’m slowly moving towards this full time. Everything is awful and I’m powerless to stop it, so why give it the time of day? Focusing instead on things that I enjoy makes me feel human again. I’m not saying everyone should do this because things will only get worse if everyone ignores them, but wow does it ever help one’s state of mind when you just turn the valve to close the shit pipe.
...year (singular)?
I'm counting down every day from now until election day in November 7, 2028. Time is at a slow cadence for me.
How can we be sure it's not still 2016?