"Close your browser window. Shut down your laptop, silence your cell phone. Just for a minute, before you go back to Netflix, before you text someone, before you answer more emails or meet friends for drinks or order a pizza or whatever it is that you’re doing tonight: just for a second, take a moment to remember that the world is also pretty fucking magical, and you’re really lucky to be alive in it.
Do what you can."
http://iambeggingmymothernottoreadthisblog.com/2015/11/28/fifteen-things-for-when-the-world-is-shitty-and-terrifying/
This is calming - take a deep breath and just read through these suggestions.
I've been honking about caring and empathy recently, and the internet sort of, and this is a moment of great anonymous, online empathy. It's saying "I know you" - and not to sell you stuff, but just to see you and heal you.
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