This is hard

The whole world is struggling

I've listened to a number of my friends lately tell me that they feel like they're flailing in life and failing at it.

Me too.

Depression and anxiety can be really hard to hide from right now. There are few good answers in the world and many, many things to worry about.

I hear you.

This is hard.

I miss my therapist (she's on vacation) but what I miss most is how much she helps me normalize the hard days, weeks, months that this year has been.

She tells me that it's not failure making things difficult, bringing me down. That it's okay to feel off and upset in the middle of a mishandled pandemic in the midst of a political crisis (the USPS is a weapon now???) and don't forget the Greenland ice sheet is probably past the point of no return now. (...I wrote this before the fires!)

I digress.

My therapist isn't here so I had to tell myself and now I'm telling you.

Yes - the world is very hard right now.
No - this does not mean you are failing.

You are not a failure. I am not a failure. We are all trying our best. And if our best looks like shit, well, we're at least on par with the rest of the world.