• Valerie Ashborne@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    I could chip in. (Even if 9 days later)

    Anyone else have similar experiences?

    Yes. I went with this experience, at the very least, twice, during 2014 and 2022. It is just how it is.

    Yes, bombs are falling, people who you happened to know are dying (think like your classmates who you never talked to), your favourite places getting erased from a face of the Earth.

    But what else there? Unless everyone going to wake up and do something with anything — things will stay like that for a long time. And since world still functioning, almost like it used to, you still need to learn, love, work, stuff like that. War does not stop that, for better or worse.

    I can not say, if that how it should be, however. I can not recommend anyone being in wars.

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      I don’t think there is a “should” honestly. People only have a certain capacity for strife. Like you said we need to unwind, feel loved, have moments of happiness, even in chaos. I see that as very human, and it doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive with actions to improve the world, either.

      Thanks for sharing!