“Am I the only one struggling with the state of the world or is everyone else just unworried and fine?” and other questions everyone I know is asking themselves right now.
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I've been dehydrating fruit, stocking up on beans, lentils, for when our food chain gets disrupted. We're building a greenhouse in the spring. It feels better to be taking small steps to protect us a bit.
I did similiar things with the corporate grocery store boycott - including changing my diet. Learning to cook Asian dishes, especially Korean and Indian, opened up different and cheaper food sources - which come from the east. Still, I will find new ways to ramp up my subsistence game going forward.
I’m kind of walking around in a fugue state thinking “everything will be okay, things ebb and flow” but truth be told I’m freaked out, overwhelming time and disassociating kind of helps but not great long term, the less time I spend doom scrolling the better but that’s a hard habit to break
Every day lately is some new crazy piece of news that doesn’t even seem real, like planes are crashing every couple of days now?! And the US administration seemingly leaning into this whole “let’s take over the world” thing is pretty scary
I just saw a video of EM quite obviously off his head on drugs, babbling accordingly during the CPAC conference, also waiving a chainsaw around like he’s Leatherface, and a lot of people will defend that and says it’s fine and normal, every day is like a drop of fresh hell
Stressed, losing sleep. Even if we avoid the worst, it looks likely I'll lose my career as the US moves towards banning all adult content, including erotica and romance. And that's close to the best case scenario.
Ugh I’m so sorry. It’s a weird time to work in libraries-lots of strange things on the horizon. I hope you can keep your career. I hope for many good things but also I am forming an ulcer from worrying.
Same. People keep telling me to "just write something else!" as if I haven't been trying to break into other genres for yeears. And that I haven't failed to get any local arts grants money over and again to help me commit more time to literary work.
I just finished talking to a couple of colleagues. We all opened up. We have built facades that everything is fine when it’s not. Just going through the motions trying to get things done.
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Stay grounded. Hit your vape. Eat the box of donuts. Stay hydrated✊️💙💜
Just giving myself time to be a wreck for now
If it's something out of my control (like another country falling to bits) I feel empathy for anyone being affected by it but I cannot do much else.
My mental health comes first.
Heather Cox Richardson discusses this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-20-2025?r=fbzt6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email