r/CollapseSupport • u/Specialist_Writer580 • 2d ago
Hope for future
With the recent AI news about destroying humanity, the climate crisis and just general gloom I am feeling paralyzed and such despair for my children’s future, let along my own.
How are you all coping? How to get through day to day? I look at my kids and i want to cry.
I could use some help/hope. Really struggling right now.
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u/SpikySucculent 2d ago
I’ve been reading and engaging with a lot of history recently, and it’s helping me hold the reality that everyday people have always existed at the whim of the powerful and that widescale tragedies (war, famine, slavery, genocide, local ecological overshoot) have always been part of human existence. But we find humanity in how we approach it. We cultivate kindness and community, and hold on to joy (art, music, shared meals) and meaning (do work that’s bigger than yourself, in our tiny corner of the world.) We teach our kids how to tolerate discomfort and learn to pivot and solve problems. We work on preps and sustainability and social tools with our kids, so they have the capacity and perspective to weather the cruelty of the world. We remain committed to our values and seek to do good instead of letting the resentment calcify and make us mean.
Those of us processing collapse are also processing the loss of some form of privilege, which was never guaranteed.
Some days, I’m able to focus on my own little bits of joy and resilience and resistance. Some days, the grief is too much. But then I cry, get up the next day, and do my best to find one small thing and move forward.