DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoHow do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareHow do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
I’m talking about stuff like “there’s NOT gonna be an election in 2028” and such, and I also support optimism
minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoOrganizing for the things you can change, which isn’t much in this “democracy”, exercise for the things you can’t. Doomerism and anxiety tend to go away if you spend 30 minutes a day running instead of doom scrolling.
minus-squareRIotingPacifist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 minutes agoTHIS, organize for things you can change. And so some pointless but fun things too, I bike marshal at PSL/lib rallies, not really going to change anything but it is fun to do.
Organizing for the things you can change, which isn’t much in this “democracy”, exercise for the things you can’t. Doomerism and anxiety tend to go away if you spend 30 minutes a day running instead of doom scrolling.
THIS, organize for things you can change.
And so some pointless but fun things too, I bike marshal at PSL/lib rallies, not really going to change anything but it is fun to do.