Nothing, I suck at sleeping and now I gave up and am browsing Lemmy
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My son is getting older every day. Soon I won't have to read him bedtime stories any more and he won't want to cuddle all the time.
The thought that I'm gonna die one day
Binette, that is in no way a certainty
How is it not?
Binette, for the first time in history, our civilization has all the tools necessary to discover a cure for aging. It's just that this whole idea is frowned upon by so many people because humans having expiration dates is considered "normal", and therefore good, by the society.
I'm following the research and am 90% certain that there will be a breakthrough in the next decade.
There are so many extraordinarily hard problems that need to be solved that I worry you are setting yourself up with false hope.
Everything is on fire. Bugs are dying, teflon - and chemicals are everywhere, micro plastics, warming oceans, invasive species, west Nile virus, ohh cancer that I might be actually developing right now, the emptiness of existence, the inability to change big things, that at the end it won't matter. Nobody cares. Me doing my part doesn't matter. Immeasurable human stupidity, global upcoming financial crisis.
These are of the top of my head. But I do know how to keep my head in the sand, so at least I can sleep well enough.
Remember that there's big polluters of the world want you to believe its all already over and that you can't win. This is a strategy they explicitly employ, and you are not immune to their propaganda.
Vote with your wallet, recycle, reuse, no single use plastics etc ... It is all a lie also.
Footprint is a lie. I do recommend his channel it is very eye opening = depressing.
Its fine
My therapist suggestion was to: bear witness.
That maybe our role is just to watch it burn, to acknowledge it is on fire.
So it's fine :) at least I don't have kids to worry about.
This fits well with my philosophy: I tolerate continued existence out of a morbid sense of curiosity.