This is almost exactly how I feel.

But the truth, as usual, is more nuanced than that. There’s an element of calm, derived from a conscious decision to choose faith over despair, to choose not to need to know yet and to find joy in each day instead. But there’s also an element of dissociation. It’s not that it hits me and I rise above anxiety to faith. The truth is that it doesn’t seem to hit me, like I’m cognitively blocked from it behind some invisible membrane and the weather’s just fine over here. Tucked away at the end of a dirt road, deep in the woods, thirty minutes from the nearest small town…
On Divesting from the Concept of Donald Trump
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Anna Mercury
Reverie
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Dec 6, 2024
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This is almost exactly how I feel. I feel surprisingly unbothered. And it's not that I support anything about him. I have just decided that I am going to focus on what in my life I can control. I can't vote in the US. But I can make a difference in the people's lives around me. On an actual interpersonal level.
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“The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds” — Cloud Atlas
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