Everyone deals with life and its pain differently. We could walk a mile in someone else's shoes and still not have their perspective on grief, evil, and stress. We know the Ukranians are suffering while many of us only have to deal with the cost of everything going up. It isn't life or death for most of us. Some decide they can't handle being happy-go-lucky on social media while people are suffering tremendously in another country. Others decide we must keep our day-to-day routine and if that means posting a silly book photo on Instagram, that is what we will do. No one can be the judge of what works and what doesn't work for individuals to process something that seems senseless and horrific. If dancing in the rain barefoot is your way of dealing, do it. If reading how Harry Potter defeats Voldemort gives you a way to empathize and grasp onto hope for better times, then do it. If singing, screaming, and writing helps you, then do it. What I'm trying to say is that you can't look at someone who reacts differently than you do as wrong or unsympathetic. Accept your strengths and weaknesses. Accept their strengths and weaknesses. Learn to be a better person by trying not to force the world into your box of perfect. It won't fit and you'll go crackers trying to make it happen. “Note to self: You do not have to continuously monitor all the disaster and heartbreak in the world. You are not in charge of outrage and grief. Witness it. Feel the feelings. Take action. But remember, love is where you live.” ~Nanea Hoffman
Ecclesiastes 3: 2 & 4 (NIV) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Isaiah 40:29-31 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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