/hope/ - Hope For the Hopeless

The world has survived much worse. In just the past hundred years or so we've had two world wars, the worst economic depression in the history of the industrialized world, and the Cold War where a nuclear massacre came close to occurring several times. We haven't had any truly world-shaking events in a while, but there's no reason to panic if we're due for another. Empires come and go, some are better than others, but mankind always seems to keep on going.

>>336

For me personally, sometimes I have to stop and focus on the little things. It's easy to get caught up in the big things, like what you read on /n/, and think that everything is hopeless. But it helps me to just look around and see what I have now and enjoy it. Always count your blessings. Find things to be thankful for. End your day by thinking of at least one or two good things that happened. Taking life one day at a time is what helps me.

>>341

The problem with that is I think it's trying to distract yourself from the bigger issues.

>>340

Sure but I don't exactly want to be the ones who get caught in the trouble. Being the ones in the blast sounds horrifying.

>Empires come and go

Part of the issue. I don't want it to change for the worse.

>>344 (checked)

It's not so much trying to distract yourself as it is not letting it consume you. I look at the big issues. I think about them, worry about them, talk with other anons and even a few real life people about them. But you have to make sure it's not all you think about. Taking time to think about the good things reminds me that even in the darkest times, there are still good things. There are a whole bunch of bad people in the world, but there's some good ones, too. To discount one or the other is an unwise decision.

Put another way, maybe it's not that the good things distract you from the bad. Maybe the bad things are distracting you from the good ones. Take the time to acknowledge both, and you'll be a much happier person.

>>336

Well OP, remember the Dark Age? If the leftists and liberals and SJWs succeed, it will be another one: no free speech, suppression of ideas, no freedom, etc… there is nothing different about this coming dark age than the different one, the only difference is the last one was brought by the Catholic Church (anything they were against was deemed "heretic"), and this one is being brought by SJWs (everything they are against is deemed "racist/sexist/problematic").

So if the SJWs and leftists win then Europe will enter a new dark age and the only way we will get out of it is the same way we got out of the previous one, but hey, at least we did survive the previous one, so that should give you some hope, I hope.

>>345

>Maybe the bad things are distracting you from the good ones. Take the time to acknowledge both, and you'll be a much happier person.

I know this is replying to something from three months ago, but that opened my eyes to look at things differently.

Thanks

>>496

I'm glad it helped. That's what /hope/ is here for.

In fact, thank you for drawing attention to that post because I've been slipping on doing that myself recently. Need to go back to my own advice.

>>497

Some things been happening friend? Care to talk?

>>499 (checked)

Nothing super specific. Just been down lately. Stress from irl commitments, a streak of bad romance luck, and I have a friend who's also going through a rough time, so I'm trying to help her as well as myself. It's just been a rough month, and I've been letting it get to me, along with all the normal societal and world problems that those of us on chans tend to dwell on.

>>500

Do you have any positives going for you?

>>491

noice, fuggen saved

>>336

>So the point of working through personal problems is to live in a world quickly going mad?

So that when the world does finally lose it's collective mind, you're ready for whatever is thrown at you.

I know how you feel though, it's tough to watch everything around you melt into pure chaos.

>>504

I do. Generally, my day to day occupational stuff is going quite well. I've been exercising more, which is good. I'm doing my best to focus on that.

>>509

What kind of exercise? Any kind of gains?

>>512

Mainly just cardio stuff. I just want to lose a few pounds. I'm not grossly overweight or anything, but I could stand to lose about 10-15 pounds or so.

>>513

That's a good goal to set, just don't get too focused on your losses and over exert yourself.