Been seeing a lot of content on Lemmy and google that has me feeling sad, y’all have any tips for distracting yourself when this happens?
Been seeing a lot of content on Lemmy and google that has me feeling sad, y’all have any tips for distracting yourself when this happens?
The answer is balance. Firstly, you aren’t obliged to fight every form of oppression people experience. You have to select the areas that you put yourself into.
Secondly, you can’t give all of yourself all of the time. The most effective way to combat oppression is to not burn yourself out, so that you can keep the fight going, and not burning out means being able to walk away when you need to.
tl;dr You need to take care of yourself so that you can fight for others
If I am being honest, at the moment I don’t have the stomach to try and act in really any form. Just looking at everything going on is overwhelming. I guess I just need to build more of a tolerance to this over time, kinda like how with working out you have to take it slow at first. Thanks Ada.