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Stuck in the Worst Timeline?
Waiting sucks.
What the everlasting FUCK is going on in the world? How did we end up in this timeline?
And what if this isn’t even the worst one?
And besides the global timeline, what about our personal lives?
It’s rough out here — the cost of housing, food, insurance, medical services, everything.
We’re wrestling with mental health challenges, war, division, the election, violence, conspiracies, road rage, teacher pay, censorship, disinformation, the way people treat animals, scammers, rage bait, the climate, angry Swifties.
The idea of CHANGING THINGS, of making it somehow have turned out differently, is riveting.
Doctor Who goes into the Tardis and swooshes back into the past and makes it okay.
Glitches in the matrix…timeslips…the Mandela effect. I love those stories of driving through fog and ending up in a small town fifty years earlier, only to return later and it’s not there or is abandoned and run-down.
Are we living in a simulation?
If your algorithms are giving you the dark news, you’re probably overwhelmed. It’s a lot.
And if you feel personally stuck, then life is probably a nightmare for you every single day.
When will it all get better? When will we get our happy ending?
Waiting is difficult for everyone, except for British people, who are known for being good at queueing.
But for overthinkers or people with ADD or CPTSD or just shitty lives in general, it’s the WORST.
It’s a liminal space, like an uncanny room in a Stephen King movie. You don’t want to stay there. But you can’t get out. And you don’t see a door. And if there’s a door, it’s locked or there’s no handle on your side.
It’s the lack of control.
It’s not knowing if things will ever turn out okay.
It’s not knowing if you’re doing everything you COULD be doing, which leads to overworking, barking up the wrong trees, spending too much money on possible solutions or distractions, self-loathing, self-flagellation…
