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Saying Goodbye is Hard
That doesn’t lessen the importance of ridding yourself of toxic people from your life.
Nobody can deny that a lot of things are happening in the world right now.
Whether you are looking at COVID-19, civil unrest, and protests against systemic racism and police brutality, awful politics, or other world affairs — you will be inundated by uncertainty and negativity resulting from it.
Many people prefer to remain passive when it comes to such things. To some degree, that’s understandable.
However, there comes a time when passivity not only doesn’t serve you — but complicates and worsens the problems and issues.
Lots of people were complacent when the Nazis came to power in Germany. They waited, watched, said nothing…and then it was too late. They were at war with most of the rest of the world, led by people committing awful atrocities and genocide, and they suffered for it.
Since we are awful at learning from history, currently some of the same issues are ongoing today. There are a lot of people out there who — faced with progress, a black-and-white viewpoint, and an intangible frightening virus — are reacting poorly.
In many instances, uninformed racism has become blatant. Casual science denial has…
