Reading the news and posting angry messages on social media isn’t fighting. If you’re doing something beyond that, good for you - but the vast majority of so-called “activists” aren’t. They’re just venting anger and spreading it to others while achieving nothing worthwhile.

If my goal were to “change the world,” I’d probably live in despair too. But it’s not. Instead, I run a small local business where I help people with their everyday technical challenges. I get to make a tangible difference in people’s lives and see their gratitude firsthand. Life has never felt more meaningful.

There are many people being careful of what they say on public forums. Don’t let that make you think there are not people ready and willing. Many people seem to speak more freely over on Rednote. There’s a lot of posts over there. I’m just stating observations.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-to-avoid-outrage-fatigue-and-tune-in-without-burning-out/

I’ve honestly never felt more determined to fight in my entire life. I am learning to find joy in the act of struggle in spite of all the darkness around us. Win lose or draw I’m going to keep going. And I have been finally taking the time to reach out and find the others who are ready to join me in this. It is liberating.

If it makes you feel better, just today out my window on a boulevard, a fuckton of angry teenagers were marching down the street with with Mexican and American flags chanting fuck ICE. I personally don’t think they should skip school over a protest, but there’s a lot of fight left in the world, even if it’s not here on Lemmy.

That said, idk if it’s recent news making me personally tired. I already have a 1 year old doing that, it’s pretty bad timing for me to save the world. But you, keep fighting.

I am not losing my will to fight.

I know the fight has only begun. And I know that, in the small chance that we win, we can create something better and more just.

It isn’t about believing we can prevail, but in knowing I’ll fight for as long as I can, because giving up isn’t an option.

You can still temporarily retreat, regroup, and practice self-care. In fact it’s gonna be essential. Take your time. We will have to be at this for a while.

I’m glad you’re with us. We need all the allies we have.

Love you too, friend <3

It’s gonna be okay. We were gonna have to keep fighting either way. The road was always gonna be long. The group of people sowing this despair was still gonna be there.

Have you ever played Getting Over It by Bennet Foddy? It’s a game about climbing a mountain. The classic experience players have is they spend hours and hours making progress, only to fall down and lose it, sometimes falling all the way back down to the very beginning.

It is truly despairing to think that you’ve lost all your progress. But…what if you haven’t actually lost any progress at all? Your position on the mountain has changed, that much is certain. But in reality, your journey to the top has not been interrupted in any way. Sometimes, losing progress is just a part of the journey. The top of the mountain may seem like it’s nearly in reach, but it’s not our place to know if we are actually close this time, or about to fall down again.

It’s also not our place to know if this next time is the one where we’ll finally make it. The important thing, no matter where we are physically on the mountain, no matter how many setbacks we face, no matter if we can almost taste the summit or if we’re so dejected that we cannot imagine ever reaching it, is to keep climbing. We just have to keep climbing.

Then let’s fight together!

Fuck, I barely had the will to fight to begin with. Now I wonder why I wake up.

you’ve been nothing but despair

Life has been great, I don’t know about this you business but not everybody is stuck in the despair situation, come join us outside in the sun!