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Two-Thirds of Americans Disapprove of Trump's Handling of Coronavirus, Race Relations

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calochortus7/10/2020 2:44:28 pm PDT

re: #96 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Every time I find myself feeling sorry for myself, I pull out my copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Two years. And she couldn’t even look out the windows.

Yeah. I actually have a metric for whether I really ought to be feeling sorry for myself. I ask myself if other people have it worse (because there is always someone who does-even if it’s not Anne Frank level worse.) If that doesn’t make me feel better, then I really don’t have a problem, which is counter-intuitive, but that’s how it is. If it does make me feel better to realize it could be a lot worse, then I actually do have a problem.

In this case, I’d say I don’t have a serious problem, but it could become one if I don’t pay attention and deal with it.