I find reading helps - something about a different era that reflects situations similar to the current conditions. As nothing is really new at any point in time. Reliving similar events through books helps a lot, at least for me.
Thanks, wish that did give me comfort. I have been big on anthropology and history for a long time, got degrees. I have spent a lot of time already comparing this to different eras. Granted, it is not as bad as WWI or WWII -- or the Crusades. But, the barbarians and sadism is still all there with 8 billion on the planet. Exponentially this might translate.
I am somehow reminded of when my mum used to tell me to be thankful, others always have it worse. Then I obsessed over how other people at it so much worse. I do not understand what comfort there was in that!
Then, I recall a Jonathan Winters joke. When he was a kid he said his parentstole him that people in China were starving, so he should eat all his food. He just kept eating and eating, but the people in China were still starving. Maybe it is one of those jokes you would have to see him perform!
I should have been more specific re books. I meant fiction more than documentaries. Written by those who actually experienced those times. This way it's not "dry science" and more engaging. Erich Maria Remarque immediately comes to mind.
This is sad. I wish you strength.
I find reading helps - something about a different era that reflects situations similar to the current conditions. As nothing is really new at any point in time. Reliving similar events through books helps a lot, at least for me.
Thanks, wish that did give me comfort. I have been big on anthropology and history for a long time, got degrees. I have spent a lot of time already comparing this to different eras. Granted, it is not as bad as WWI or WWII -- or the Crusades. But, the barbarians and sadism is still all there with 8 billion on the planet. Exponentially this might translate.
I am somehow reminded of when my mum used to tell me to be thankful, others always have it worse. Then I obsessed over how other people at it so much worse. I do not understand what comfort there was in that!
Then, I recall a Jonathan Winters joke. When he was a kid he said his parentstole him that people in China were starving, so he should eat all his food. He just kept eating and eating, but the people in China were still starving. Maybe it is one of those jokes you would have to see him perform!
I should have been more specific re books. I meant fiction more than documentaries. Written by those who actually experienced those times. This way it's not "dry science" and more engaging. Erich Maria Remarque immediately comes to mind.
I have never been big on too much fiction, though I have a few favs.
Yes, I remember experiencing my parents telling me that AND Jonathan Winter's joke. My father loved Winters...Robin Williams loved him too;)