A friend had a really positive take on feeling powerless.

Was talking to a friend recently about the anxiety and stress I’ve felt the past couple weeks over the current political climate and I voiced how I felt powerless to do anything, but compelled to do something (so a catch-22). He had a take I thought really helped.

He calmly explained, we as individuals don’t have the power to enact change on a global scale, so making yourself crazy over trying to do something big doesn’t help. However, we can impact our inner circle.

The hope is that if we treat those in our immediate radius well and make their world a better place, they’ll in turn impact their inner circle in a positive way, leading to positive rippling effects in society. It’s essentially just a cycle of good karma.

I know it’s a little naive, but it helps me to feel like I can control things more than before and gives me hope