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stoicism ig? i have to accept that there are things out of my control, and i cannot let that stop me from functioning entirely.

I think for me it’s about focusing on what I can control and influence. I can do very little about the horrors of the world, but I can make my community better, I can make my friends and families lives better, and then it’s a net positive impact I’m leaving on the world.

Is that enough? I dunno, but for my own sanity it needs to be enough for right now.

just wanted to add another answer to the wonderful ones you've gotten already.

During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.

I don't really have a good answer on how to find joy despite the bleak violence of reality, but I know that we must still try to find it, because hope and joy is exactly that which they are trying to snuff out.

Focus on things you can do. Ride a bike, bake a bread, call grandma, degoogle your phone, volunteer somewhere, drop 5 bucks for Gaza, stuff like that.

I had a flight today and they reminded us that in an emergency parents should secure their own oxygen masks before attempting to help children.

Protect your own mental health first. You're no good to your loved ones or society if you're too depressed or defeated to fight against the evils in this world. Also, y'know... you don't deserve to bear it all on your shoulders!

Accurately feeling all the pain is suicide. Don't do that.

Turning away cuts you off from everything good. Don't do that.

Do some third thing instead.

You get silly about it. Have multiple emotions at once.

Also helps with creative solutions.