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Does anyone else ever feel overwhelmed by negative news? How do you manage what news to pay attention to and what to ignore? Do you feel the need to stay current with everything happening in the world, no matter how negative it may be?
I've never been a pessimistic or negative person and I've always been pretty firm about staying up-to-date with as much of what's going on in the world as possible. That started to change in 2020 when I didn't have a college graduation. That's when it really hit home for me that life as I expected it was maybe not going to be as "normal" as had been promised to me. When the sky turned an apocalyptic orange last summer due to wildfires and 2021 became the worst drought year since the 1970s and now we're on track for the second-worst wildfires in California history after just the previous year, a part of me started to think "what's the point? everything just keeps getting worse, the downward trajectory isn't going to stop, and there's nothing I can do about it." I come to sites like this to discuss these issues because knowing that other people are noticing what I'm noticing puts me at ease to some degree. But there's only so much doom and gloom I can take. I've noticed it in podcasts I listen to that cover current issues; they've become more negative over the past couple of years as well and who can blame them? The climate is self-destructing at an exponential rate, we're in a pandemic that shows no sign of going away, a conservative Supreme Court is going to dictate the direction of the country for generations to come...
How do you handle it all? Because I'm starting to lose my grip here...
I've never been a pessimistic or negative person and I've always been pretty firm about staying up-to-date with as much of what's going on in the world as possible. That started to change in 2020 when I didn't have a college graduation. That's when it really hit home for me that life as I expected it was maybe not going to be as "normal" as had been promised to me. When the sky turned an apocalyptic orange last summer due to wildfires and 2021 became the worst drought year since the 1970s and now we're on track for the second-worst wildfires in California history after just the previous year, a part of me started to think "what's the point? everything just keeps getting worse, the downward trajectory isn't going to stop, and there's nothing I can do about it." I come to sites like this to discuss these issues because knowing that other people are noticing what I'm noticing puts me at ease to some degree. But there's only so much doom and gloom I can take. I've noticed it in podcasts I listen to that cover current issues; they've become more negative over the past couple of years as well and who can blame them? The climate is self-destructing at an exponential rate, we're in a pandemic that shows no sign of going away, a conservative Supreme Court is going to dictate the direction of the country for generations to come...
How do you handle it all? Because I'm starting to lose my grip here...