What's on Your Mind

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I'm exhausted by my anger lately, and venting doesn't make me feel better because it does nothing to change the things that I'm so angry about. And seeing others who are not angry make me angrier.

I do many positive, constructive things in my life, I act and am viewed as a role model often in my life, so I can be happy that I contribute directly to my communities and the next generation. And to some extent that is all I can do. But I feel powerless to broaden my contributions.

I never thought of myself as being an idealist or naive, but I do believe that I have always searched for the good in people, to understand their perspective and to have empathy for people who I don't agree with, that I have a responsibility to try to understand what makes them come to their opinions.

But I feel that ability in myself is slipping and I'm becoming very cold to the viewpoints of people I don't agree with. I am very much narrowing the scope of people I care about and respect, and that in itself bothers me. I don't have the energy to be "the better person" or to reach across the aisle so to speak. I feel myself radicalizing and switching from a world view of diplomacy and compromise to one of confrontation.

That's not a trait a value in others, much less in myself.


Coquito helps.

You have to retain your diplomacy but ditching yor emotional involvement. Problem solved!