Feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel

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I feel like we are just seeing more problems emerge after another, first the pandemic, then cost of living crisis, then the war in Ukraine. I seem to think all I hear is more doom mongering after the next. For example, they're saying cost of living could be the worst in 70 years and get images in my head of lots of people homeless everywhere and that inflation would be as bad as it was other countries like Zimbabwe under Mugabe where inflation was so bad that people couldn't be able to afford even the most basic supplies. I maybe am forgetting that there is a crisis going on all the time even before the pandemic happened but it just feels like we are having to deal with 3 or 4 crisis at once and then another might come along making it a 5th.

Well, there is History with great "H" going on right now.
Networking is how my family has survived all the wars, revolutions and poverty under Soviet regime. As long as Russian bombs are not being dropped here, the rest is manageable for us.

That's the way the world has always been----one crisis after another.

My solution is to focus primarily on people who are close to me, and be decent to people who aren't close to me. And to do things like donate to specific causes that are devoted to the assistance of the people who are in severe war zones, and in poverty in general.

If I ever become homeless I'll commit suicide. I'm too sensitive and anxious to be homeless and I need security. In the UK most homeless people are angry, rough chavs who take to drugs and alcohol, and you have to kind of be one of them to survive without a home. I'm not like them at all and I never will be.



Funnily enough, my wages have gone up too.

In 70 years I'll be around 118 years old, so I probably won't care by then. I'll probably be like that ancient old worm in a wheelchair in Spongebob, asking my caretaker if she just can't wait for me to die, or telling people I remember when they invented TikTok and that I always hated it.

There's light everywhere. It's a self-imposed tunnel in the end, where the choice is mostly shadow or some idealized distant light. You just need to look beyond the invisible walls and its darkness that lead you nowhere. This is one thing I learnt quickly, as no matter how dark a spot I was in, I could still see those sunspots when I closed my eyes.

Various sources say, with various explanations, that whatever you think about/focus on most will happen because what you believe will subconsciously lead you to act in a way that will enforce your belief. For this reason, you had better focus on positive things. Otherwise, you may end up making the horrible things you are thinking come true. "Think positively!" is a cliché for a reason.

This ain't true for me. Back in 2009 when the swine flu was all over the news I had HUGE anxiety over it and thought I was going to lose my dad because he has asthma and they were saying people with any lung condition were more at risk of dying from swine flu. I drove myself crazy with panic - only for it to turn out to be nothing (well, there wasn't any lockdown or restrictions and everybody suddenly stopped talking about it). Then at the start of 2020 when covid was all new, I actually didn't worry at all because I thought it would just be another swine flu scare, so I just got on with my life as normal without any anxiety over it at all, and then, well...you know the rest! The worst DID happen to extremes I wasn't expecting.