Is it just me or does anyone else feel "off"?

I’ll be the weird one and to admit to actually feeling better. In another thread someone mentioned the “existential dread” of the last couple of years, but I’ve been feeling that dread since the ugliness of the 2008 Presidential campaign. That we were the proverbial boiling frog, and took for granted that order, peace, stability are the “normal” and not the aberration in history.

For the first time in a long time, I feel like some people are still willing to take the steps to counter the entropy by standing together, recognizing, and accepting the dangers and discomfortable fallout this all poses. It may not work out in the least disruptive way. It could be very, very bad, but the display of strength and unity Ukrainian people despite the imperfections (the idea of the difference between acting heroically and heroes), could be the catalyst, certainly in that part of the world, to open a new phase of freedom and democracy instead of the move toward autocracy. They are demonstrating the difference between patriotism and nationalism, which is something we needed to see, because the lines have gotten pretty blurred.

I don’t fear the immediate dangers, as much as I fear the feeling of antipathy, “There is nothing we can do, it doesn’t affect us, so why bother? Where do you want to go to dinner?”

Next week, month or year, I might feel differently but for today the “existential dread” is trending down a touch. Even if risk of disruption and destruction increases.

Hugs right back to you again, sweet pea. It's all so HARD isn't it?

I can relate to what lot of you are feeling. I remember seeing this during the early covid days. It's all covid related, but maybe this will help someone else.

iblog.dearbornschools.org/msrizk/2020/05/04/things-we-can-can-not-control/