i am. i’m deeply in agony seeing this world. but i also know that i can do small things to make my community and life better. sure, we can all die in a nuclear war next month, but i can use that month to donate when i can and be kind to strangers and advocate for change and find joy in small things. the world will keep spinning, and even if i want to die, i feel like i need to keep going to do as much good as i can

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a coworker that i had known for a whole, who would talk about her son every time i saw her, lost her son to suicide. that was her only child. i watched how it destroyed her. i promised myself i would never, ever do that to my mother or the people i love. sometimes when you can’t do it for yourself, you have to find someone to do it for. your cat will never get closure, your dog will think you simply left and never came back…i just can’t live with what the consequences are anymore.

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what gives me hope is seeing that there are still empathetic people out there, fighting for change & not backing down.

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I've chosen delusional optimism

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there is love everywhere if you look for it. people are deeply flawed but also very lovely and beautiful. talking about the bad things going on in the country is important but pretending like these people are the majority is just wrong. people forget that even in 2016 clinton won the popular vote. MOST people are kind and trying their best. i think it’s my responsibility to do right by those people and fight alongside them instead of feeling hopeless. hope exists as long as hope exists yfm?

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What’s going on tonight? I just don’t concern myself with the news. I don’t let my social media show me politics etc.

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If I can’t see it it can’t see me.

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i follow people online who are putting in the work to make their community better and aren’t trying to get clicks by scaring people. i stay informed but i also recognize that staying hopeful is important and the only way out. they want us to give up and i refuse. for example fossil fuel companies are paying millions to people making doomersim content about the environment, but actual climate scientists focus on solutions and confirm it’s never too late to take action.

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