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[adrienmundi]

What I'm doing isn't working. Doing nothing doesn't work, either. The question, the point at which I find myself more often and in an increasingly unstable position, is doing anything better than looking/waiting for a more-right thing to do? That probably doesn't even make sense to anyone outside my head.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

After at least one particularly avoidable air crash, the FAA started pushing the idea of "First and foremost, fly the plane. Deal with issues as they come up, but number one priority is to keep the plane in the air".

Dory in Finding Nemo has a similar philosophy, "keep on swimming".

So I think of 'doing nothing' as doing the bare minimum necessary to stay sane and alive. It can be amazing how hard it is to do that little.

Another thing I've found helpful to think about, is that I'm hardly the only one in an untenable situation, lots of folks out there are having the rug yanked from under them. That may not help in the short term, but if the whole world is changing, then I can't feel that bad if I guess wrong.

[adrienmundi]

It is amazingly hard, you're right. Maybe it's a perception thing, but either what used to get me by isn't working any more, or the frustration with subsistence only living (metaphorically; it's been a while since I wanted for core staples) makes it seem like sanity is slowly running down the drain.