It’s dark and it’s gray, and for the moment the earth is still here and still spinning away on its axis. Will it last?
Who’s to say?
I’m not a big truster of people at the best of times, but I’m feeling pretty misanthropic for this early on a Monday. Add a healthy (unhealthy?) dose of grump and we have a recipe for an obstacle course kind of a day.
Which raises the question.
Is the obstacle course already out there, waiting for me?
Or am I setting it up myself, trap by trap, obstacle by obstacle?
It’s weird how mood itself shapes so much of what we see of where we are, what we’re doing, what needs to be done. Yesterday’s breeze of a task today may seem insurmountable; yesterday’s impossibility, today’s walk in the park.
Including if it was actually a walk in the park.
In the time to come, we will have a lot of outside forces working on our mood, a lot of external factors we will not be able to control, no matter how much we want to, no matter how much we wish we could have.
It will be what it will be.
The only thing we can control in all of this is ourselves. Maybe not our moods, because, like the changing weather, a cloud passing over the sun for a moment or a heavy, dense blanket that just won’t budge, moods will change when they change.
Best we can do is accept them and bring an umbrella.
But we can control where we direct our anger and how; we can control where we lash out and how; we can control whether we stand with the people on our own side or help lob rocks for the people on the other.
Just because the world is uglier than we ever hoped, it doesn’t resign us to only making it worse.
I’m not telling you to take the high road by any means, and I’m not telling you to waste energy on the people who don’t deserve it.
Those days are done.
But in six months, a year, two years, four years, will you be able to look yourself in the mirror?
That’s the real question.
They will do what they can to destroy us, to destroy our beliefs, and our morals. Let’s not help them by clawing ourselves apart.
Have a great Monday.
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