Nuki News #9 - Crisis and Calmness

So, there are some prompts I think about, and write down for me to talk about later, this being one of them. There is no shortage of tragedies in the news and social media, after all. Often I do what I can to avoid reading or watching these sorts of things. Not out of apathy, but more to protect my sanity. At the end of the day, there wouldn't be anything I could reasonably do to change the results of any world or nation-afflicting crisis. Learning to reduce the focus on these things and separate yourself from being accountable for something outside of your control is probably necessary to find personal success.

At least, that’s what I’d thought, until we faced one of the most globally impacting scenarios; the pandemic. In this case, there are things I could do; and I am very accountable for how I handle it. We all have responsibility for our part in this covid crisis.  Doing what’s recommended to prevent further cases(social distancing, hand washing, etc) has a real life n death impact on others. It was definitely hard to stay calm when I might be making my loved ones sick. However… unlike my normal mindset about these dramatic global situations...instead of avoiding it,  I’ve watched and read a lot about it! I didn't choose to try and ignore it, and check on updates for it daily. As long as my sources of information about the pandemic are level-headed and not dramatized, it’s actually helped me keep steady in this time.

Maybe this is the exception to the rule, because we’re all so personally affected by this situation? It could be! Maybe after all this blows over, I’ll go back to ignoring other world issues. Or maybe, this will be how I approach all world issues from now on? I don’t know that I’d be willing to draw something for global or political issues, but it’s got me pausing on why I should or shouldn’t look into issues.

With political things(candidates, controversies, bills/laws) it can often be hard to find the line at which my life will be impacted by it, so it’s easier to ignore, and in fact, the more I’d learn about it, the angrier or more upset I’d be, seemingly without any agency to do anything about it. 

I don’t consider myself the calmest person. And I’m sure you’d know I’m often keyboard mashing when I find something I absolutely love(omg if I see belly bumping pictures) but when it comes to difficult things I do try to take deep breaths and look at things as objectively. It’s not easy. This week in particular I’d been sequestering myself in my room whenever I had the free moment, and I didn’t have much focus for long periods of time. It’s easy to write about it here, but in the moment it feels a lot different and it’s a challenge to stay objective and put together. But it’s a lesson I’ll keep having to learn and improve on. 

What about you? How do you handle hard situations like these? What have you found that’s helped?