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Originally Posted by Serpentine Leaf
Some heavy thoughts here, just a warning.
I'm far from the only person feeling so overwhelmed by the global chaos surrounding us. I read an NPR article this morning that says 3 out of 5 people
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when we're the most in need of hope and the promise of a better future is when we're the most vulnerable to false messiahs promising us our dreams, and instead giving us nightmares beyond imagining.
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I'm including your quote just so you'll know this was addressed to you, SL.
I'm not an American, but I feel a lot of what you are saying. Something went to h3ll with our ability to form communities in the real world. I don't know how or why. I know that I have tried, and it sounds like you have tried different routes too. Like you said, people are wrapped up in their own little social groups.
Years ago my wife and I moved to a new city. We made the BEST connections there. In some ways I'm sorry we left. One couple we met were at the root of it all. They drew no boundaries or distinctions... Friends from different social networks, and family, were all invited together to their home. We met their friends from his work, their friends from her work, their friends from his childhood, from her childhood, their friends from their church, his family, her family.... That's how they rolled. It was really cool, and a great example to follow.
And.... Anyone who never did shift work doesn't "get" how isolating it is. It sucks. The best thing a shift work job did for me was fund an education that led me out of shift work.
I feel you, and everyone else that this thread resonated with.
RDM