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Okay so I said I'd be back with more suggestions to combat the hopelessness and helplessness that our current world situation is making a lot of us feel.
You can read part one, which is my low effort / low cost list, here.
As with that list, these are still suggestions that worked for me, and come directly from my personal experiences dealing with depression, hopelessness, and general spiraling into "nothing matters". Just because they worked for me doesn't necessarily mean they will work for you, or are appropriate to your situation, or maybe you think they're extremely high effort vs my medium effort. That's cool! You're an adult, you have to make your own determinations.
That said, I encourage us all to try new things. Doing the same old shit gets us the same old results.
Because this is a list that steps up in effort or cost, this one has a few more meaningful suggestions for how we can engage in our communities more. I'm going to be real with you - we have to start doing this. And I do mean in our communities.
Political agency has been wrested from us by the billionaires, and very frankly, we have no one in political -- from either side of the aisle -- willing to challenge that. So until we have a reason to trust there will be meaningful change at the top, we need to be making meaningful change at the bottom. Get as local as you can, we have to be the voices that say "Yes. In My Backyard."
Anyway, this list is a mix of both the internal and the external, and my point is you don't have to go far from home to make a difference. In fact, you will make probably an even bigger one if you don't!
( Medium Effort / Medium Cost Hope Builders )
And that's it. That's the list. I hope it helps <3
You can read part one, which is my low effort / low cost list, here.
As with that list, these are still suggestions that worked for me, and come directly from my personal experiences dealing with depression, hopelessness, and general spiraling into "nothing matters". Just because they worked for me doesn't necessarily mean they will work for you, or are appropriate to your situation, or maybe you think they're extremely high effort vs my medium effort. That's cool! You're an adult, you have to make your own determinations.
That said, I encourage us all to try new things. Doing the same old shit gets us the same old results.
Because this is a list that steps up in effort or cost, this one has a few more meaningful suggestions for how we can engage in our communities more. I'm going to be real with you - we have to start doing this. And I do mean in our communities.
Political agency has been wrested from us by the billionaires, and very frankly, we have no one in political -- from either side of the aisle -- willing to challenge that. So until we have a reason to trust there will be meaningful change at the top, we need to be making meaningful change at the bottom. Get as local as you can, we have to be the voices that say "Yes. In My Backyard."
Anyway, this list is a mix of both the internal and the external, and my point is you don't have to go far from home to make a difference. In fact, you will make probably an even bigger one if you don't!
( Medium Effort / Medium Cost Hope Builders )
And that's it. That's the list. I hope it helps <3
