Combatting overwhelm in today's overwhelming environment
Recently, the New York Times ran an op-ed titled “There are almost too many things to worry about.”
There aren’t almost. There are.
Ukraine. Covid. Local politics. Global warming. Relationships suffering. Inflation-based stress. Gas prices. The article mentioned could have been about any of these. It happened to be about abortion.
The human brain wasn’t made to hold all so many intense things at once — especially ones we can’t easily do anything about. But, our modern technology has made it so not only can we know about them, we can get up-to-the-second updates about all of these things, all the time.
No wonder we’re tired.