“Fifteen Things for When the World is Shitty and Terrifying.”
“Close your browser window. Shut down your laptop, silence your cell phone. Just for a minute, before you go back to Netflix, before you text someone, before you answer more emails or meet friends for drinks or order a pizza or whatever it is that you’re doing tonight: just for a second, take a moment to remember that the world is also pretty fucking magical, and you’re really lucky to be alive in it.
Do what you can.”
Note: I think that I meant to schedule this for a year ago and accidentally scheduled it for today — a lucky accident.
This is calming — take a deep breath and just read through these suggestions.
I’ve been honking about caring and empathy recently, and the internet sort of, and this is a moment of great anonymous, online empathy. It’s saying “I know you” — and not to sell you stuff, but just to see you and heal you.
