A question for my activist friends...

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and my friends on the left generally...

How do you avoid despair? How do you not get consumed by the rage?

I find myself sinking into sort of a cynical apathy, that looks at each new outrage and says, "So what else is new?" It's not that I don't care, just that I feel beaten down.

I know that for evil to triumph it only takes good people to do nothing, but how do you keep from that?

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[mnfiddledragon.livejournal.com]

for me, it's taking each day as it comes, and focusing on the things that are truly important in my day to day life...ie., getting up, making it to work, snuggling and playing and paying attention to my kids. Making sure I get some downtime.