#and i'm very tired of people who frame the doom party in their heads in pretty words as if it's the only way to be

[psalmsofpsychosis]

found this little cute tidbit on Facebook today, and i'm in some kinda mood so i'm gonna be brutal for a moment before we go back to our daily scheduled fun times:

times are changing, but they have been changing for a long while now; in fact, they have been changing since the beginning of time. Reality is not a *presently unfolding* collective collapse; it's that and the seaside turtles coming back from the brink of exctinction in higher numbers than ever and your grandmother growing her best three indoor tomatoes this year and also everyday things, like taking a walk and resting besides a tree for 10 minutes. Reality is not the dawn of horrors, and you're not an adult for thinking like that; or let me put it more concisely— you're the most useless form of adult if you succomb to comfortable cynicism and nihilism and ease your journey through life by grossly simplifying all of it to hopelessness and misery and terrible 8pm news on TV.

Because if there's one thing, it's that hope requires courage. A comfortable person goes from all out optimism to all out pessimism, never taking a moment to stop along the road to marvel at the flowers that bloom from the heart of stone ground anyway. We're living in trying times, but so have our loved ones 5 years ago, and their loved ones 50 years ago, and their loved ones' loved ones 500 years ago. You've never been alone in going through hell, and you're not alone in having the capacity to do whatever you can, in your own way. We have always been courageos; there was no other way to be. It was never about being strong or being in denial, it was about grieving what we cannot be and cannot do, and then holding on to our hearts and doing what we can do anyway.

So i need you all to understand that adulthood is not habits and it's not misery; it's the courage to hope. And it happens not in the absence of misery, but despite it. And i believe we can still be courageous in however little ways we can. ❤️