The hardest thing to master must be to continue living - not just surviving - when everything around is on fire. Knowing how to take care of yourself to not collapse or even daring to achieve some joy; 1/ - ThreadSky

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The hardest thing to master must be to continue living - not just surviving - when everything around is on fire.

Knowing how to take care of yourself to not collapse or even daring to achieve some joy; 1/

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macamergin.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is something those of us in the US are learning now. Thank you for your advice!

the33rd.bsky.social•1 day ago

To tend your inner flame when chaos reigns is the ultimate alchemy. Self-love becomes the hearth; your fire lights others'. Joy isn’t defiance, it’s how we transmute collective burning into shared dawn.

willowcrone.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can only imagine your struggle. It is hard enough here in the US. I started my day with a message from my youngest which contained sonogram pics. I think about totalitarian regimes and a world on fire and the folly of “normal” but my heart soars. A baby!!!

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Congrats! 🥰

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•1 day ago

upholding some routine, falling in love, having kids, and all that while remaining fully committed to national liberation, struggle against a dictatorship, or war. 2/

wolfbear7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•1 day ago

Somewhat unrelated, but once I heard from some coach on YouTube, can't remember which one: "Your worst fears are not happening right now." Yes, what's happening right now in 🇬🇪 is pretty close to my worst fears, but not *quite* there, at least yet (& hopefully we prevail sooner than we get there). 3/

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm glad if this quote helps someone out there, because it did help me back when my drama was mostly personal and not national (ah, the good times). 4/

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•1 day ago

For a very long time, I thought it was almost treason to do anything other than the immediate every day all day, but you reach a point when you are not physically functional anymore and do more harm than good for the immediate efforts too.

But I'd be lying if I said I've learned how to relax. 5/5.

sto-k.bsky.social•23 hours ago

💯 At a time where the authoritarians’ seek to rob us of our humanity and wear us into submission, expressing joy, engaging in self-care, and creating art are subversive acts necessary for the soul to keep fighting. Sending solidarity from 🇺🇸 where many of us also engage in the fight of our lives.

nafoengineer.bsky.social•1 day ago

🥰

infanzone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Marika, if you are a good person, taking care of yourself is not a bad thing, but rather the opposite: a safe investment.

lovesaloophole.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have cancer. The best things are so simple. Petting my cat. The smell of the earth now that it's spring. Familiar lamplight on a familiar wall. Joy is not a foreign concept

marikamikiashvili.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Oh! Rapid recovery to you, keep strong ❤️

lovesaloophole.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Thank you, it's going to be ok

clayagy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is a very sick man. How so many Maga fools can follow this sick person, I don't understand.

mentalhealthblog.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Because they are sick selfish people, too.

Most of them who are regretting their vote are "but I thought he wasn't going to hurt me. This has to be a mistake."

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