The World Is Burning. I'm Hanging Onto Frivolous Dreams.
The world is honestly a lot these days. Lately, I wonder how any of us can truly get through one of them. How do you do it? How do you emerge unscathed or even... marginally okay each day? I know I'm barely treading water.
Politics. The pandemic. War. An infant formula shortage. Trials by TikTok. Another school shooting. A hospital shooting. Personal tragedies. Medical crises. Um, gas prices are crazy.
It never ends.
Sure. you can step off of the merry-go-round for a moment. You can turn off the news, stay away from social media, maybe even bury your head in the sand. You can try to not let the sadness touch you... but it will. It does.
How could it not?
For a long time now, for far too long, I haven't been able to shake this feeling that our world is just... on fire. That there's too much sadness, too much strife, too much fighting. There's so much anger and division, it seems we're pretty much all burning this place to the ground.
It's way too hard on way too many days to feel like anybody really even cares. It can be hard to find a shred hope... let alone believe in it.
I often don't know how to tell my kid about "the real world." She's a newish 8-year-old who still prefers cartoons over…
