I'd like you to
know that we have The Uncensored Library at our collective global (sanitized,
socially distant) fingertips. I think that's so frickin' cool. Mind you, to
access it, I personally would have to get my little godson to let me onto his
Minecraft account, since the library's only available on that game, and simply
having the bare bones version gives you access, but the fact that I’m still fairly
young and already choose to be technologically out of touch is not as alarming
as censorship and not as exciting as this resource! You see here,
whippersnapper, this be impor’ant!
Puttin’
yourself on lockdown during a pandemic makes life more stressful, for damn
sure. That said, a survival mindset typically means that you believe you're
always lacking, whatever that lack means to you. It stems from an increase in
the stress hormone cortisol, maybe even more adrenaline, which of course means
more selfishness, anxiety, fear and greed. The more one might hoard toilet
paper or baby formula or price gauge hand sanitizer, the more they are
defeating their purpose of empowerment. They're giving their power away to
stress. A more productive, less stressful way of managing hardship and a sense
of isolation is to focus on a sense of community and of family, as well as personal
growth.
Recently on an
episode of her "Better Together" podcast, Maria Menounos chatted with the fantastic psychic
medium John Edward and said, “What
do people do in prison? They work out, they read, get their Master’s degrees,
they do all these things!”, which I think is an appropriate analogy.