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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[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Long photo trips tend to be good medicine for me. Sometimes I, and many people, need a vacation from activism. We see this issue a lot at Impact, where the work is certainly enormously directly rewarding but can also be really difficult to stay centered around.

I have taken LJ vacations at times for this reason, too.