How to Stop Spiraling into Despair Amid the Hurt

Sponging in on the chaotic atmosphere
Picking up on all the hurt
Hurting until it’s debilitating…

Spiraling me into despair
Draining my energy well
Incapacitating…

I understand but
I don’t understand
Stop it.
Period!

On my radar, people are the biggest thing.
When people hurt, I hurt.
Today, I want to gush over a baby or go to a petting zoo.
I need something transformative to happen, to see the glass half full again.

Empaths and highly sensitive people (HSPs) are not the only ones feeling exhausted and overwhelmed in the present chaotic environment we’re confronting now. I’m miles away from it all, my television is turned off but through my short visits on social media, I’ve already picked up so much. And for two weeks now, I cannot function, I-can’t-breathe.

Chokehold.
Brute-force.
Human tragedy… failure is what the present leadership exudes.

Current events have superseded the 2020 pandemic which hasn’t run its course, a vaccine still pending. Is this yet another tasteless attempt to mock nature and instigate more wildfires? The world is watching — red and yellow, black and white — the world is hurting. People are people are people.

End that, now! Period!

(6/9/2020)

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…one day the bottom a-go drop out

“Every day the bucket a-go a well,” sang Bob Marley in his native Jamaican Creole, “one day the bottom a-go drop out.”

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The pulse of life feels different these days.
To read more on how I try to
reconnect to find good footing amid the turmoil,
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(article first published on Medium 4/12/2020)

expression-Image by Ri Butov from Pixabay

R.I.P George Floyd

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