Belated Birthday, Twitter, and the Doom Spiral
3 years ago
Hey
So, first of all, for the past three years, I've made myself a birthday journal on here. I guess I forgot this year. Regardless, though, on July 10th, I turned 21. It's pretty chill. Nothing's really changed, but I can finally buy alcohol, so that's cool.
Anyway, on to the real topic of this journal: Twitter. Since maybe late 2018, I've made furry Twitter my new home on the Internet. It seems to be the most active and most interactive out of all the furry platforms I've been on so far. However, as you probably know, it's not a site made for furries, or furry content, so much as for everything. As such, whenever I'm scrolling through my timeline, I get a smattering of news content. Particularly, how everything is going terribly and how facism is running rampant, how the people in charge are asleep at the wheel, how tensions are at an all time high, etc. Now, it's important to stay informed, but when I view too much of this content, I tend to go into a tailspin of anxiety, anger, sadness, hopelessness. This is what I call the Doom Spiral. It sucks you in and leaves you spinning and feeling helpless and hopeless. In the very center of the Doom Spiral, you're left thinking "Things are constantly getting worse. Nothing will ever get better. I need to get out of here before things get even worse."
This is why I have to step away from Twitter , sometimes. Admittedly, the world, particularly America, looks really bad right now. The future is entirely up to speculation. I don't know how bad things will be next month, let alone next week. Logically, I can't rule out the notion that we're all fucked, no matter how hard I try. But, as anxious and pessimistic as I am, and as bad as things are, I can't let the Doom Spiral take me. I have to keep pushing forward, and keep the faith that things will improve. I just have to.
Well, that was it. I don't know why I'm posting this at 5 in the morning, but I hope that you out there are faring through this better than I am. Stay safe.
Anyway, on to the real topic of this journal: Twitter. Since maybe late 2018, I've made furry Twitter my new home on the Internet. It seems to be the most active and most interactive out of all the furry platforms I've been on so far. However, as you probably know, it's not a site made for furries, or furry content, so much as for everything. As such, whenever I'm scrolling through my timeline, I get a smattering of news content. Particularly, how everything is going terribly and how facism is running rampant, how the people in charge are asleep at the wheel, how tensions are at an all time high, etc. Now, it's important to stay informed, but when I view too much of this content, I tend to go into a tailspin of anxiety, anger, sadness, hopelessness. This is what I call the Doom Spiral. It sucks you in and leaves you spinning and feeling helpless and hopeless. In the very center of the Doom Spiral, you're left thinking "Things are constantly getting worse. Nothing will ever get better. I need to get out of here before things get even worse."
This is why I have to step away from Twitter , sometimes. Admittedly, the world, particularly America, looks really bad right now. The future is entirely up to speculation. I don't know how bad things will be next month, let alone next week. Logically, I can't rule out the notion that we're all fucked, no matter how hard I try. But, as anxious and pessimistic as I am, and as bad as things are, I can't let the Doom Spiral take me. I have to keep pushing forward, and keep the faith that things will improve. I just have to.
Well, that was it. I don't know why I'm posting this at 5 in the morning, but I hope that you out there are faring through this better than I am. Stay safe.
Don't expose yourself to the doom and gloomers, people have been crying that the world was going to end and that it "has never been this bad" since time immemorial, it has been this bad before, and it will get better.