In collapse do long-standing mental health struggles actually benefit a person? Let’s find out of depression and anxiety are actually adaptive as the planet goes off the rails!
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You won’t find me posting collapse porn. Catch me when you’ve started mourning and get that itch for life affirming shit. You’re alive NOW and you were always going to die some day, let that light a fire under your ass 2 collaborate and find the gifts you always suspected you had
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Gifts that ease each other’s suffering and find adaptive ways to work with the changing conditions we find ourselves in rather than clinging to old models of what our lives should have looked like, and gifts that help us fight for a just transition
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In storytelling the protagonist has a moment of being told that they are special and the only one who can help. If you find yourself waiting for someone to tap you on the back to tell you this, stop waiting. The WORLD is calling out to each of us in this way.
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& you don’t gave to save it, but maybe by figuring out how to fully be yourself you will be the expression of it that is needed right now, and if we do this in collaboration with each other, idk, beats sitting on my hands refreshing permafrost stats
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Idk how I would be refreshing permafrost stays while sitting on both of my hands but like, maybe it’s a black mirror sitch idk
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Anyway I’ve worked with a lot of messianic men in spirituality, tech and activism and I was once for some reason very attracted to and am now totally over the idea of letting my own energies get sucked into someone else’s world-saving project
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If you think you’re doing it alone and you’re the only person who understands how to save THE WHOLE WORLD and everyone in it you’re probably a) wrong b) closing yourself off to a lot of important info coming from marginalized people
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I struggle with how to stay engaged with the world while simultaneously allowing my mind and body space to heal. This feels like a privilege most of the time& increasingly it feels like this work needs to be BUILT INTO how we address climate change, BECAUSE of how hard it can be
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Anyway I’m always interested in hearing how other people are grappling with all of this
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I'm not, personally. It just doesn't bother me much at all.
I still don't think politics or activism should prioritize anything else more highly, but personally, I just can't get worked up about it.
Can't decide if this is some sort of realization or just a sign of latent ASPD.