Asklemmy

I know you already got this but here is it again in my own words: don't watch the news, don't read social media, make personal connections one on one with people and judge your life by your vision and lens. Most people are judging it through a distorted news or social media centric set of glasses and it sounds hopeless. But when you look at your own family and friends you might just realise they're better than you think, you're able to find time to play and connect, you can still work and live with comfort, and your kids can grow up strong and healthy.

Start discarding that which is not truely part of your life, ignore the billionaires, the enshitification and all other forms of uncontrollable and frankly, barely affects you. These societal issues are always painted with someone else's view point.

When you find something that does directly, without someone else telling you it does, affect you, and you're in the mentally healthy place to take on that challenge, that's when you Ave. If you think about it like that, and others did the same, most of our societal problems would be tasked by those who are in positions to do so.

I say this as someone who's currently on 24/7 standby watching someone kind of like you, but going through depression, going through hopelessness, and going through addiction recovery (with all the slip ups). And their life right now is made, but they're so busy fixated on issues they can't either control nor have affects on them. They've got a house, it's part paid off, they've got a well paying job, the owners of that job respect and offering pay rises to them, they've got a partner, who's struggling their best to help them. In isolation they're in luxury. But they get self worked up about other people's business and societal or global issues. For what good? Stay grounded and self aware. Be thankful to yourself for making it so far already, and see the upward trends over the entire life and not the tiny problems of today.