Get a LIFE Already: Stop Letting People Manipulate Your Outrage

Julia E Hubbel
Living Out Loud
Published in
8 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Photo by Kelli McClintock on Unsplash

It starts, not surprisingly with taking some calcium for your grossly underdeveloped funny bone.

Pissed off? Outraged? Angry all the time?

Yeah. Join the club. Not mine. I get angry once in a while, which is normal, thank you. I do not, however, remain in a constant, migraine-inducing state of royal rage, which seems to be the case for so many, all ages, all generations, colors, creeds, but for some. I’ll get to that in a New York minit, but first.

If you’re a regular reader of mine, you know I love to highlight, tag and uplift other good writers. First, it’s polite. Second, lotsa folks say lotsa things better’n I can, and by sharing good stuff you win. I win. They win. Kinda what building a community looks like, but hey, I’m old.

To that, in case you missed this very smart piece by Jessica Wildfire:

I love this quote:

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Julia E Hubbel
Living Out Loud

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