Anybody feeling hollowed out by the tensions of modern life. Some hopeful words from an experienced traveler?

[Moonbeam]

Feeling empty inside, one sociologist found answers by exploring his own traumatic childhood | Psychology | The Guardian

Along the way Corey Keyes developed concepts of languishing and flourishing which others have found helpful, writes Genevieve Fox

amp.theguardian.com

I particularly liked his realization of the difference between inner and outer when a similar book was published.

Take what is given, give what can’t be taken. A saying

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Hopeful words:

We're probably only a few election cycles away from societal collapse due to climate change, and we can move back to tribal societies where if someone's a raging lunatic, you just brain him in his sleep.

 

[Moonbeam]

That's been my theory since I started posting here but I spend little time thinking in that direction. The time when people acted automatically to counter psychotic thinking from taking root within them has long passed in my opinion. No hope in that direction today I believe, It would require somebody missing the late show on TV. Best hope is to heal yourself.