The surface. The "normal." The hey we have to do work because we have bills and this is what we do, the normal everyday stuff.
The macro. The world. The "wow things are actually extremely bad and not in a "I'm overreacting" or "This is hyperbole" way. Climate change (which begets the fires we see more and more, hurricanes, extreme cold conditions, etc etc), AI encroachment (which poisons the technologies we use and sucks up resources that living creatures need to live), politics (the richest man in the world did a Nazi salute TWICE at a presidential inauguration and the mainstream press is trying very hard to not acknowledge that), genocide (here and abroad), the targeting of the marginalized (especially trans folks), COVID, public health being gutted in the United States, bird flu, just an endless list of the horrors.
The hyperpersonal. The "I just need a little more time." I just need a little more time. I just need to outlive my parents and my cats (or at least most of my cats, as one of them is a baby).
I think about all of these every day but I try not to do it in a way that keeps me from living my life and moving forward and doing what I can in these times!
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