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In reply to the discussion: How is Everyone Here Coping? I'm find it very hard these days.. [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)Plus we have animals that need to be fed and cared for. And I spend a few hours every week at one of the nearby dog rescue sanctuaries repairing fences or painting buildings or whatever.
But what I don't do is watch the news on the teevee machine. It just leaves me pissed off and I find out later (usually on DU or somewhere else on the interwebs) that it was all BS to begin with.
For me, the TV is all about escapism. If I can't find something decent on the dish I have a pile of Swedish detective movies on DVD that I can watch and understand without having to see the subtitles.
I don't get stressed by global events, by macro type things that I can't change. I do what I can and take things one day at a time. If the world is going down the crapper, it's going to do it with or without me worrying about it. It helps that I can sit on my porch in the evening sharing a bottle of wine with my wife and watch the sun setting over the California coast range. It also helps that I'm 71 years old and I've finally learned that all the stuff I used to stew about either never happened or didn't really amount to much when it did happen.
Call it coping, or denial or whatever, if I keep occupied I seem to feel a lot better.