aasatru

In case you’re European, and genuinely wonder.

Having children leave the house is a re-defining moment, just like establishing a family in the first place. It’s scary, but it comes with all kinds of possibilities as well.

It sounds like you did a good job on reinventing yourself as a parent, of course trusting your judgment that your kid is indeed wonderful. But the fact that you love him enough that it keeps you going probably counts as further evidence that you’re not doing so bad.

You’ll manage to reinvent yourself again. And if you can’t do it in your marriage, there’s no shame in doing it outside it.

There’s still a bunch of kindness around. There’s good food to be eaten and culture to be consumed. There’s drinks to be had and friends to be made. Dances to learn and skills to master.

There’s a lot of things to be hopeful about, aside from the whole everything going to shit thing. And if you can brighten up people’s lives by doing it, you might even contribute to the world going slightly less to shit.

I think it’s time to recalibrate and focus more on the closer things. Doesn’t mean one should ignore the world, but we’re not fixing it by stressing out, doom-scrolling, and posting about it online either. We tried.

Case in point.

non-sectarian “left-unity”

Lol. I’m a social democrat. They’d send me to a camp if they had the chance to.

Then again, when put in charge of things they sent each other to camps as well, so maybe this is what tankie unity looks like.