David Leszcynski (he/him)Nov 13, 2024

Woke up at 4 AM with existential dread. Mostly thoughts of coming to the realization and resigning myself to the fact that I don’t see a way de-escalate things in the US. Will there be a conflict? A civil war? A coup?

I’m sharing this after my affirmation post recently about us getting through this because it’s normal to go back and forth between pessimism and optimism as we all try to figure this out.

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I have a lot of meetings where out of habit (and because I care) I always ask "how's it going?" or "how are you?"
It's been hard this week seeing people struggling with how to answer that... like... so I guess we're just normalizing this.
We do that with a lot of things. Capitalism and climate change come to mind. Paving the world to drive cars we don't want to places we'd rather not go.
Nov 14, 2024 at 1:50amWeb
Show threadDavid Leszcynski (he/him)Nov 14, 2024

@charles I think we need to still ask this question but make more space for people to answer honestly.

I’ve answered honestly lately. I’m not doing well. But I’m coping. I’m not doing well. But I want to make the world a better place. I’m not going well because I’m terrified and scared and betrayed.

Being vulnerable is scary but oh so powerful.

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