Welcome to Wonderland

In times of great stress, panic, and unfolding news stories, you really don’t have to post. You’re not an embassy. You don’t have to make a statement. The world won’t stop because you decided to read a book this afternoon instead, and current events won’t stop being bad if you just post hard enough. Posting has never been activism. Consider saving posts to your drafts and then returning to them at the end of the day to see if you still want to post them. Consider that those who came before us also went through hard times, but they weren’t mentally tortured by a device in their pocket that blasts bad news into people’s eyeballs for several hours per day. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what you’re really doing besides exacerbating your own misery. You’re already informed, and if something else big happens, you’ll surely see it without having to be glued to your phone.