Last week in news really got to me. It usually does, or I try to avoid things as much as possible (sorry, I'm a liberal snowflake and my feelings get hurt easily :/).
Starting with Trump's tweet typo ("covfefe") and ending with pulling out of the Paris accord, it's just starting to feel like there's no way to make things better. The reactions to the tweet, for starters, pissed me off. I can't even imagine what the Google search trends were like. People were actually making memes and thinking it was funny, when I really think Chrissy Teigan said it right:
After the fourth tweet using the word, I was sick of it and wanted to mute it from my timeline immediately. It wasn't that funny and I think we all are going insane. For starters, there are more important things to focus on (the earth is going to melt and all the cities I want to live in are going to be underwater, a la Jonas Brothers, 2006).
There's truly just so much injustice and pain that people around the world are enduring, that sometimes it just feels easier to be negative and avoid it all. When this situation arises, sometimes I question my own difficulties and feel even worse. My dumb situation doesn't even come close to what some people are going through.
However, there are good things and that's what we should focus on more. There are people out there fighting for what they believe in: to have equal rights, to reduce the effects and stop climate change, to end world hunger, to help public schools gain access to better resources, I could keep going.
It's hard to be positive, but it's worse for everyone if we're negative.