 Be kind to yourself Humanity was fucked before you were even born. It's not your responsibility to fix it. Do what you can to make things better, but don't get upset if it seems like you aren't making a difference. Never feel guilty about indulging in things you enjoy or taking a break. Life is a accident of chance and circumstance. We didn't get to choose to be alive now — at this moment in history, in this place, under these conditions, etc. We just have to deal with it all as best we can 16 comments
The good stuff is all the more precious for it's impermanence. It's easy to miss. Easy to forget. Easy to drown under entropy and darkness. But it's there if you look for it, watch for it. If you are kind to yourself it might even come to you, like a deer that steps out from the brush into the open when you sit perfectly still. Be kind to yourself @malcircuit It is becoming increasingly difficult to be kind to myself. Sometimes I feel so caught up in the current state of the world that I forget my own needs. I really needed to hear those words. Thank you. 💜 Rather than overestimate my degrees of freedom to react one way or another to inputs, I try very hard to notice when my initial reactions are beyond my control, which tbh is always. There’s a great deal of distraction available in this self-examination. Distraction, for me, is in the small things of which @malcircuit speaks. If I’m distracted, I am uninterested in those things clamoring for my and everyone’s attention these days. Fook dot shite! SQUIRREL!!!!  @malcircuit What helps me is to think of right here, right now as this secret place only known to myself and those here with me. It flips the script. No longer is this moment worthless because it will vanish forever. Instead, that's the very reason it's so special. Just to be clear, I count myself among the fuckups and misfits of humanity. We're all just a bunch of apes that are too clever for our own good sometimes lol I've always loved Terry Pratchett's quote on the name of our species: "The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee." It's so true. @malcircuit i agree we should not feel guilty doing harmless nice things and that it's not our *responsibility* to fix this planetary mess the capitalistic industrialization is causing, but it's our *interest*, the problem being not much the possible, currently very probable end or decimation of our species by itself, but that it will be a very painful end for most of us, as it already is for many in many other places in the world. @malcircuit we should not feel guilty doing what it would take to avoid this painful end, that is a global revolution: taking all the cultivated lands and all the means of production to turn off the polluting ones, build non polluting alternatives for energy production, and manage all this without bosses in little federated communities. I do try, to make things better than I found them. To be kind to myself while doing so. But everywhere I look there’s piles of shit and bad ideas that somehow have legs. It’s like a massive to do list and I can’t let it go. @Kiwiana13C No one is giving you the to-do list except yourself. Do what you can, but it's not your responsibility to fix all the problems of the world. Especially not at the cost of your own sanity. Bodybuilders know muscles don't get stronger while you're lifting the weights. They get stronger afterward — while you're sleeping, while you're watching Netflix on the couch. Working out everyday will only sap all of your energy and leave you weaker. It's the same with the mind. Taking a break and distancing yourself from the chaos helps your body and mind recover, and gives you the space to build the strength needed for the next fight. |
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Humans are dumb. We are a bunch of fuckups and misfits. It's surprising we've made it this far. But we've survived some crazy shit. Maybe we'll survive this too.
The planet will live on regardless. Or not. Doesn't matter. In a few billion years the sun will expand and burn it to a cinder.
Doesn't change the fact that you have to live your life right now.
Kiss your partner. Play a video game. Chat with a friend. Help a stranger. It's all still good even if it's meaningless. Savor the good.