Seeing many of us (including myself) struggling with emotions, these last weeks, I went hunting.
Maybe this can help us find/retain/maintain healthy clarity. We are not our emotions, thoughts, ideals, or worst inclinations, although these things certainly arise and dissipate as we master the competing beasts, lion or lamb, within us.
Has anyone heard from Comrade rainpizza, btw?
It is about believing that even when life feels like a never-ending Monday, things can get better.
Tbh the feeling of never-ending Sundays is something I know well. You have nothing to do today, but tomorrow will be a workday. Kind of paralysing. I rather start doing something, even if I am tired. Resting becomes difficult.
I understand that, too. I urge you to rest while you can, including the mind. Daydreaming or just closing our eyes and watching thoughts float by without grabbing onto them. This helps me calm myself and my nervous system. The weeks when decades happen will return.
Thank you comrade, I needed this.
You are so welcome.
theyre on a break i think
Thank you. How are you doing, comrade?
omg tysm
You’re welcome!
Saying things will get better sounds like toxic positivity to me. They can get better is great, but do face that it often takes work to do so. Saying things will get better just sounds like relying on hope to me. Hope without a plan is absolutely soul crushing for me and shreds my will to go on. I need a goal and at least a current next step towards it (and hopefully backups should that current step fail) is what I need to stay positive. And reminders, looking at past patterns showing that things can and have gotten better before.
Will power is real. Without it, I and my furbaby would be in dire straights right now, this moment, and multiple ones before. Sometimes it means taking control of my thoughts, words and noping on worst scenarios, negative or toxic talk, because I live in an underserved area and we try to help each other out, while also having our own mountains to move, taking control of my emotions, feeling them for a limited time, then noping on those, whether it’s training my mind on positive thoughts, my material conditions, like if I’m sick of waiting on someone to help me with something I can’t do on my own, doing what I can so there’s not so much on them when they have the time, energy, and bandwidth to help out, and if I have no ideas, I seek them, and not finding any suitable, I find something else, or a compromise, even if I don’t like it, or it seems overwhelming and put one foot in front of the other, sometimes by sheer willpower, 😂.
And I’ll tell you something else, a lot of times, more than I can count, it was through the kindness and inspiration I’ve found right here, in these spaces, with good comrades who share their struggles, strengths, weaknesses, successes and triumphs. I love you all.
it’s a pretty good article imo. one thing is trying to be happy even when things go south while you fix the issues, and something different is to pretend that everything goes as planned to not accept your failures or things that need to be fixed
