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The World is NOT Ending
I know that it feels that way — but it really, truly, is NOT ending.
Are you feeling it? That inexplicable stress? The sensation that you are a rubber band wound too tightly and fit to burst? Do your emotions simply overwhelm you with little or no explanation?
If you answered yes to any or all of the above — you are feeling the impact of the current world situation. Between COVID-19, a vacuum of useful leadership in the United States, an ugly, ugly election, and months of extreme uncertainty — it’s hard NOT to be feeling it.
Patience has been worn thinner than ever. Because of poor to no leadership, the end of this crisis is nowhere in sight. What’s more, we keep seeing idiotic moves in the name of commerce. You cannot reopen schools and practice social distancing because kids are kids. There’s plenty of money for tax breaks for the uber-wealthy and funding an oversized military — but no money for the everyday needs of the people.
This feels very much like the end of the world. Social order is in chaos, entitlement and selfishness are overruling reason and logic, and there’s just a general sense of dread overwhelming nearly everyone.
Maybe the way things have been done for a century or so are coming to an end — but I assure you that the world is NOT…
