The world is on fire even more now and I’m so tired of pretending everything’s fine.
It’s like we just can’t catch a break this year. Things go from bad to worse to Worcestershire sauce levels of unpronounceable disaster and back again.
Every time you think we’ve hit rock bottom, someone hands us a shovel and points downward.
Atrocities in America. Atrocities in Australia. Atrocities everywhere you look, because apparently the human race has no upper limit to the amount of bullshit we can inflict on each other and ourselves.
I don’t even know how to cure all of this. I’m not smart enough to solve global suffering or wise enough to explain why people keep choosing cruelty when kindness is right there, free of charge.
The news cycle is a relentless machine designed to make you feel helpless and angry and overwhelmed.
Every notification is another reason to lose faith in humanity.
Every headline is a reminder that the world is broken and getting more broken by the day.
And as much as I want to throw in the towel. Well, we just have to keep going.
So hug your loved ones close. Make art that matters. Be the light in a world that desperately needs more of it. Create something beautiful in the face of all this ugliness.
This place is exhausting sometimes. It’s okay to admit that. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed by the sheer weight of everything wrong with the world.
Just don’t let it paralyse you. Don’t let the darkness convince you that your small acts of love and creativity don’t matter.
They do. Especially now.
Time to turn off the internet for a bit and come back when things aren’t running out of control.
Stephen Walker.