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If You Give Up or Give In, They Win
Do what you can to stay strong.
I have massively reduced my time on social media. This is to avoid doomscrolling and doing harm to my mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
It’s not that I don’t desire to know what my friends and loved ones are doing. It’s that all the bad news, awful happenings, and ongoing ugliness is disheartening, upsetting, and can move all the way over to terrifying.
How in the hell did we get here? After decades of progress, how did society take such a willful, ugly, unhinged step backward? I could analyze this ad nauseam, look it over from every possible angle, and the conclusion won’t change: What I can do outside of me and my life is massively limited.
Capitulating to this insanity has become the norm on the part of media agencies, workplaces, and other institutions. Not a lot we can do, save choose where we shop with that in mind, protest and boycott as necessary, and so on.
What you can do is choose to keep fighting, keep taking stands, keep being you. Because if you give up or give in, they win.
There is, however, an important truth about winning and losing in these circumstances to consider.
