Mental illness is a completely appropriate reaction to fucked up shit that’s happening around you. Idk why people don’t understand this. Behaving like you always do, wearing the same smile when everything is not fine is sometimes more fucked up. Misery is the right company for agonies.
I said this because this tweet got 30k plus likes and it pisses me off. I think white leftists of the first world should be even more miserable. It’s only right…
trying to be genuine and gentle here, but. i find this framing really weird and accusatory. the idea that people are making themselves miserable, as if its a conscious intentional choice, rather than just feeling heart wrenching grief as a natural response to the conditions of the world. is just. so mind boggling to me. of course we need to still take care of ourselves as much as possible so that we can continue living and continue pushing for a better world where these kinds of atrocities arent a daily occurrence. but to act as if its somehow abnormal for people to be upset about witnessing genocide is just??? how do you even rationalize that? allow ourselves to live? we’re not even allowed to publicly express grief because it makes other people uncomfortable.
i dont think people are falling into “the suffering olympics” or “making themselves miserable” we just naturally feel this way. its not performative. its not a choice. i am filled with overwhelming grief. i find myself in tears at random times during the day, even when i’m not actively thinking about palestine, when im just cooking breakfast or watching a silly cartoon, trying to give myself a moments break from everything, my body still feels this pain and it comes in waves whether i want it to or not. we are feeling this shit in our bones, we cant help it.
“you still have to get up tomorrow” why?? and i don’t mean in a depressed sense, i mean that the insistence on continuing to go through the motions like normal bc well we just have to is cruel and senseless. its wrong that our society treats us like automatons who can just continue on, endlessly laboring and consuming, no matter what happens. the same way it was wrong in 2020 to expect people to just continue going to work and school in the middle of a pandemic as if everything was normal
in fact i think thats part of the reason people are so depressed and miserable. the grief will always be there but what makes it unbearable, what people are trying to express is that there is no where to put that grief in our society, there is no acknowledgement of it. even mentioning that you feel this way is taboo and will be met by shaming. people are expressing their pain and shock and heartbreak and what we get in return is “your suffering isn’t noble”
