How do I deal with "the horrors?" I enter a hyperbolic time chamber of willful stupidity for most of the day. It may be cowardly but at least it also makes me unproductive.
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I’ve been going outside and aimlessly wandering whenever I can. If I’m not near a lot of people or roads I’ll go w/o headphones and just listen to birds and the wind and whatnot. Climbed a tree randomly for the first time in years. Literally stopping to smell the flowers. Extremely cliché but helps.
Yeah... I'm struggling enough with my own shit. If I pay too much attention it will affect my physical health. And my mental health will naturally be absolutely dumpstered.
I hate that I can't go out there and fight, but I can at least survive.
I have made many scarves in the past, but long ago. I made my first granny square a few days before New Year's, and now I'm 30-40% of the way through a king-size blanket. I'll still have to sew in the ends and crochet them all together. But it's helping my sanity as I listen to the news.
And then you give that blanket to someone, tell them you were thinking about them while you made it, and when THEY experience The Horrors™️ they have at least one thing that shows them that the world isn't altogether terrible.
same, i wish i could just pour art out but having to take care of parents plus the horrors™️ takes so much outta me. at some point it’ll flow, but it is important to keep as level as possible. just gotta maintain, be present and helpful to the ppl who matter to u
It's not cowardly. It's a means of survival. We can't look at all the worlds' problems all the time. Sometimes the best thing we can do for ourselves (and others) is look at what's close to us, find the joy, and reflect it back out to the world.
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I hate that I can't go out there and fight, but I can at least survive.
if there's nothing you can do, you can at least be entirely useless, maybe even actively useless in a way that slows it down.