I’m walking along here right now and the thought occurred to me, “What if I spend the next four years in places like this? Off tv, social media and any news. Completely oblivious to what’s going on.”
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I work in an office yet starting Tuesday it’s the company track treadmill & beach walking for me. I didn’t move to California to sit in a house. I could do that in a shithole state where some lowlife shit eating impotent short motherfucker like Johnson comes from where he “watches” porn.
We all need time to disconnect from this insane reality periodically. Stay too plugged in and you become more ineffective. At least that’s my experience.
That’s my plan…but luckily, I’m in a blue state - with a lot of privileges so I am able to live in my bubble. My sympathies go to those living in red states (who did not vote for the felon) without the same privileges.
I often go on a “news diet”.
If the news comes on tv, change the channel.
Don’t read news stories.
If people are discussing news, walk away.
It’s hard but it’s GREAT for your mental health!
I want to go back to being "bored" and finding productive things to occupy my time with versus scrolling. I think if we can all collectively romanticize that, we'll be ok.
Went to Europe for 3 weeks and completely cut off social media and email. Admittedly it was freeing. But I feel I need keep up some and not have head in the sand. You do what’s good for you. Practice self care!
Go for it. I heard there is a cruise for people who want to avoid the next 4 years. Basically you will be at sea or in another country for the whole time.
That sounds like a great plan regardless of any political influences in the world. Anxiety and panic can be easily hijacked by marketing and propaganda. Green spaces, calm homes, blue oceans, animals in the wild, family, friends, hobbies, reading, the night sky, clouds, and sunsets are the cure.
With streaming platforms now that’s easy to do. I’ve been doing it since the election and plan on doing it for the next four years! Not going to get sucked in!
feeling the same way. There's a snowstorm where i am right now. i followed some fox tracks, and wandered way into the woods. the sun started to set and turned everything pink. i wish i brought my camera
I hate having to know what’s going on in the world. I’d rather be “fat, dumb, and happy.” But how do you balance your responsibilities as a human to your fellow beings and keep your sanity? Why do I feel like it has to be one extreme or the other or I am judged?
While I have tried to avoid news about what is going to happen. It’s almost impossible to avoid it. There is a deep foreboding in the pit of my stomach.
I’m hoping I can wean myself off the doom scrolling this month. I’ve not watched MSM since election night. Deleted Twitter in November. Deleted FB and Threads last night. Deleted TikTok. And I’m planning my 2025 reading list now. I want my life back! Setting limits for screen time, too!
He can be lovely, restorative and healing to unplug like that. My problem has been that when I've come back – from much shorter escapes – I was overwhelmed with email and slammed by all of the news that just slammed into me.
Last Sunday I got back from a weekend couple of days with no cellular and no Internet. Only text messages so my brother could reach me if anything happened with my father and only a couple of friends texted me. 238 emails when I got back.
I spent the pandemic lockdown in the Ozarks, on the water. It was sheer bliss. Worked remotely 8 hours, no office bs, got on the boat and fished a lot. No crowds, no hustle. Wish I never went back to the stress of the world.
Not busy on the lake where I was. Too early for swimming or skiing, we locked down in March and went back at the end of May. Only busy spot was at the grocery store but I got in and out quick. Small town, just hanging with the locals.
Wouldn't it be awesome, I'm turning my Escape into a sleepable vehicle and do some traveling in the U.P. Michigan. I haven't explored the western U.P. much and would like to go up Minnesota's Lake Superior Coast.
I'm thinking of a place like 400 people, within 15 min of a hospital and in a northern red state. I know they'll be maga, but I feel like it'll be oblivious in that kind of place
I'm sure part of that would be living the dream, but this country is gonna need all the voices it can get in the next for years especially from sane tolerant people. Cause it is shaping up to be one hot dumpster fire. 🔥
Im going to be honest, i barely survived the first time around. The despair i felt then, and feel now. Its going to get bad, people are going to get hurt and people are going to die and i just cant keep screaming, helpless to stop any of it.
It's going to be terrible, but please don't give up. So many people will need us. If you're not able to help physically, see if you can donate to those who can. SPLC, ACLU, food banks, anything. 🩷
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Some people were not to pleased with me having this thought.
Oaxaca City, Mexico
Antigua, Guatemala
Osaka/Kyoto, Japan
If you have the ability to avoid this mad house, DO IT !!!!!
If the news comes on tv, change the channel.
Don’t read news stories.
If people are discussing news, walk away.
It’s hard but it’s GREAT for your mental health!
#VashonIsland
Stay involved
The urge to dissapear is high
Things will.still affect me, but I'll hear way less grief about it all.
Might be for the best
It's never mattered to me who was in the White House and I've never followed a law I don't agree with.
Not everybody is a warrior. I Feel guilty though