Get back up.
Above all, no matter how many times you get hit, can you get back up? --Gwen Stacy, Into the Spider-Verse
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Do what you can.
There's so many problems, so much uncertainty about the future, it can sometimes feel overwhelming and you just shut down. If you have a counter full of dishes, even if you wash one dish you've technically made the situation better. Marginally sure, but still in the right direction. And if that's where you can focus your attention it might provide some momentum to finish all of them. But if not, that's fine too, you still made the situation a little better and sometimes that's the best we can hope for.
Hope you find what you're looking for.
YOLO
"I have to get past this, why not now"
"Right now" is forever. It's always "right now". So, don't let the past weigh you down and don't let the future trip you up. Live in the moment.
As my first zen teacher once so eloquently put it, “The past and the future Do. Not. Exist.”
From one of Patton Oswald's stand up specials, he shares his late wife's mantra, as a devout atheist: "It's chaos. Be kind." Nothing means anything, nothing happens for a reason, things just happen, they only have the meaning we bring to them, be kind.
“The wheel of Fortune turns and turns”
"it's not the worst thing that's ever happened to me."
And even if it turns out to be, we'll only really know in hindsight.
"it doesn't really matter" keeps me going
That's a great platinum blonde single.
be far-sighted
"Every task before you is a challenge to succeed." It's from "Moment to Moment" by a band called Children 18:3. Great song.
Also from them "All my balloons are popping!"