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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lemmylem@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

I'm worried for the world. All I've been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can't even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I'm not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

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[–] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I worry! Every. Single. Day.

I worry about my social media addiction, about the fact that I’ve read once books like a maniac, but hardly read any books at all now. I worry about Fake News and racists on the internet and about ignorance on the streets and fascists in the government. I worry about hot summers and warm winters. I worry about the future of my young nephews. I’m worried about war. I’m worried for the world and thus for the whole of humanity.

I’m fine! My life is good. I don’t have panic attacks. But there is always this slight worry in my mind and if I think about it, it gets bigger.

Others recommend a social media detox. That’s a start. Chill a bit. Relax. Enjoy the spring. Maybe learn a new thing, get a new hobby, like cycling or cooking. And then maybe, start doing something about the things you can change. I’ve learned a new phrase this week, it’s „productive restlessness“. You can’t do anything about world war 3, but maybe you can change other things.

And please, don’t allow others to take advantage over you, using your fear. Don’t buy a nuclear bunker for your garden if you can’t afford it, please don’t start believing in crazy conspiracy myths and tell the tankies to go to hell, when they try to tell you that you should vote for trump if you want peace.

A fellow worrier.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you need to lay down the weed and touch some grass bro

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, you could log out.

That isn't going to change the fact that the US is becoming a fascist state and the rest of the world will follow, but you can get a day of blissful unawareness.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The key is to learn to accept our inevitable doom. It gets easier if you design yourself to it and just go play video games or something to pass the time.

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

I have multiple borders with Russia and it's alies and live kinda close so I am kinda fucked

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Doomsday clock don't fucking work except for this.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I've stopped caring really, humanity can go extinct. We don't deserve this world. It will be a much better place when it's just deers and wolves frolicking about.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah we're fucked. Take the average person and they'd sooner become a nazi when push comes to shove than believe in a better world.

It's not if society is going to fall, that's going to happen regardless of what you do, it's if you personally are going to survive the fallout.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We, southamericans, have little to worry about.

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Not really. Just the firstworlders

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

If you really look around things are way better than they ever have been, like hugely better in practically every metric.

It's OK to enjoy life

[–] EmpeRohr@federation.network -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@lemmylem@lemm.ee dude we are so fucked. We are heading to a dystopian cyberpunk fascist future, so we are fucking up the planet and we fuck ourselves that way

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