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Don’t Panic!
This is truly sage advice — particularly at this moment.
Even if you are the least empathic person around — I imagine you can feel it.
There is a deep sense of uncertainty almost like a mist in the air. Fear, concern, anger, frustration, hopelessness, and hope. A mixed jumble of almost tangible emotions.
If you are not in the United States, you likely are not feeling this so keenly. But I wouldn’t be surprised if you also notice it.
Some people hope that today solidifies the current unreality. Others — the majority, frankly — hope today starts the shift back to sanity.
I do not want to get into an in-depth analysis of this. Also, I don’t care to put my focus on this situation any more than I have over the last couple of years. I will make one last statement to this end — if you have not already done so — VOTE TODAY.
Now, as to the almost tangible coming from the intangible — don’t panic! Take the advice of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and do not allow yourself to be carried away by the media circus, by everyone else’s emotions, and the collective consciousness.
Like blame, panic serves no purpose. It is a visceral reaction to fear that tends to cause inaction rather than action. And like many other things in this life —…
