A friend wrote to me and said, “it feels like everything is worse than it’s ever been…but I’ve also been paying more attention so maybe that’s why.”
I told her (and then tweeted so I remembered I said it), “in these moments I always ask myself, ‘would it be better to be unaware and unaffected?’ The answer is always, ‘better for whom?’”
Sometimes I get to the answer quickly, and sometimes I curse all the gods that I am unable to ignore things forever.
Your grief is the gift of being alive.
Be gentle with yourself, friends. This shit is gonna last a while.