Recent events in the world... all inclusive - have been quite bad. However, I don't want to talk about "what". I want to talk about "you", and by "you" I mean YOU.
As a college student, and a product of the 90's and growing up in such crazy times... anxiety is common and those growing up are the perfect vessels for it.
I constantly am worrying and simply had to learn how to contain it. Recent events have not been helping. Mass shootings here and there, political uprisings in Europe and the Middle East, ISIS, North Korea and all the hurricane's hitting Florida and Puerto Rico make me worried about the state of the world and most importantly my place in that world.
How can I keep living my life, taking exams and going to work like everything's okay because it's NOT? How can I have the audacity to be happy when others are dying and losing family members? How can I have the audacity to act like everything is ok?
These are my thoughts.
But the truth of the matter is we CANNOT worry about what we can't control. We cannot have anxiety about things that don't concern us. For someone like me, who cares about my fellow man, this is a tough concept to wrap my head around but perseverance is relentless and so is this world and we must live in this world - so we must persevere.
That is the miracle of humanity; we will always persevere.