What Can You Do About That?
The answer depends on whether “that” is personal or broader.
The evolution of humankind is amazing. Relatively speaking, we’ve gone from hunter/gatherers struggling to survive as individuals to farmers struggling to survive as a community to whatever we are now blazingly fast (only about 12,000 years).
What we are now is an interesting mystery. Only in the past 100 years or so have human beings developed the ability to communicate instantly across the globe. We’ve gone from a knowledge base that encompassed those within maybe, at best, 100 miles around you, to being able to learn, right now, what’s happening on the other side of the globe. If you really think about this, it’s truly amazing.
It has, however, come with a price nobody’s reconciled. It’s massively impacted the collective mental health of everyone. Arguably, it’s impacted all four elements of human health, wellness, and wellbeing — mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. This, unfortunately, takes a back seat to ideas, opinions, thoughts, and faux immediacy of problems that you can do little to nothing about.
Recognizing this can then lead to false impressions of selfishness, lack of caring, and possible shunning. Ironically, many of the people and institutions humans turn to in the face of this are prime examples…
