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Can You Swallow A Bitter Pill or Two?
Accepting certain difficult and unpleasant truths of current reality will open you to finding and/or creating positivity to help move past this.
I don’t know about you — but I don’t want to watch the world burn.
Some terrible things are happening right now. The big picture issues include the politicizing of COVID-19 and the top of our government being utterly unwilling to take a stand to fix that problem. That same leadership working to widen all divides just to remain in power. Protests of systemic racism and the continued violent response of too many members of the police. The murder of black people by those same police forces because of the color of their skin. LGBTQA+ rights being stripped by the aforementioned government. The ongoing attack on equality and choice for women.
That’s national stuff. Most people are facing far more personal matters. Many jobs have been lost due to COVID-19, too many people are unwilling to practice proper social distancing or mask-wearing, and too many people are risking their lives to keep an utterly fragile and false economy up-and-running.
The physical and psychological impact of this is taking a toll on everyone, and that’s manifesting in some unpleasant ways. Tempers…
