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The Madness of Living in 2026
Already.
How are you doing this? How are you out and about? How are you keeping it together?
How are you — how are we, how are any of us? — supposed to walk around right now, just going about our lives, drinking coffee, taking the kids to basketball practice, watching “Jeopardy!” doing laundry, getting back to work after a long holiday, all the everyday normal life shit?
Life is extremely hard. It’s hard being a parent, a spouse, an employee, a boss, a sibling, a son, a daughter, a dog owner, a citizen, a person just puttering around the planet trying to keep their head on straight. It is hard, it has always been hard, life is difficult, that we are all still out there plugging away day after day is amazing, we do not credit ourselves nearly enough for just keeping our heads screwed on straight and not having everything spin wildly out of control. By doing it any of it, you’re doing great.
But to do all of the things that you have to do to be a person who is alive and the world while all of this is happening …. I mean, we’re really supposed to go gather our tax returns and make dentist appointments and help our kids with their math … in all this?
We all have our breaking points. I wonder if this week was mine. I wonder if it was yours too.
