You Will Get Through This
Things feel hard right now. For everyone. On the personal, local, and world level.
And I thought this post about how everything will be okay and how our reaction to a situation is a secondary (not primary) source of pain; one that we can work with even if we can’t stop the first type of pain (the situation) from happening.
After going through some possible what ifs that stem from the fear response, he points out that those worst fears are not how life works. He writes,
If you were to think back on all the moments where you thought everything collapsed, how do you explain the fact that you’re still here standing today? … There’s a great irony to thinking that your life is unbearable because your very existence means that you are already bearing it. The very fact that you’re here right now is proof that you have what it takes to endure and overcome your hardships.
It’s a great read to bookmark and return to the next time you look at life and think, “How are we going to get through this?”
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While that post looks applicable for (privileged) people normal times, I don’t know that it’s really accurate right now on the grand scale. I’m NOT sure everything is going to be ok for all those people sent to the prison in El Salvador. I’m not sure everything is going to be ok for people living paycheck to paycheck once the tariffs start. Or people no longer getting AIDS medications or TB medication or measles vaccines. Everything was not ok for people when the Nazis came and we don’t have an allied army to come save us. We ARE the allied army. Fear is rational right now, but we also have to fight, or at least, those of us who are white and privileged and don’t have overseas accents need to fight, while we still have that privilege. The only way forward is to push through. But it’s not irrational to be afraid, not at all.
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