Rage: we have a right to be angry. A terrible thing has happened. Knowing it might take calm and compromise to fix it doesn't change that.
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Sarcasm: gallows humour is a coping mechanism, but not universally so. What helps one might hurt another. Let's all try to cope & let cope.
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Determination: the desire to fix, survive, endure can be shared without needing, every time, to assert that bad things are still inevitable.
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Despair: some people won't recover. Some will, but not yet. Some are already fighting. Don't despise those who react at a different pace.
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Numbness: not everyone can feel this right now. It's too big, or else too personal. We are working in fragments. We are all trying to cope.
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All today, I've had poetry running through my head. Lines that give me strength, or which resonate at the frequency of my distress.
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Find an anchor. If you need anger, be angry. If you need a plan, make one. If you need self care, rest. If you need time to react, take it.
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There is no right way to feel in this moment, no one correct response.
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Michelle Obama said it best: when they go low, we go high. Let's be the better people, not by ignoring this horror, but by resisting it.
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I'm going to end this thread with a Tennyson quote I've had in my head all evening, because my own words feel utterly inadequate.
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We are: "One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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