Yes, I needed to let it out and to share it.
I assume that you are already a little further along in your acceptance of what has happened and what will happen, given the circumstances and experiences in your country. I am afraid that we here are still far from the humility and acceptance of such events over which we have no direct control. I think it is quite a significant difference to feel within oneself whether one "gives up" or adapts to the circumstances like flowing water without ceasing to be water.
if we wait a long time and nothing changes on the outside, by that time, we have probably changed, on the inside, and we have found an alternative.
True.
Waiting is actually more often the better option than taking action. My struggle nowadays is that the outside world does not accept waiting as something desirable. In the long run, though, and on a non individual basis humans altogether create a field of ignorance towards threats, for a threat cannot be maintained artificially in the same way a tsunami or earthquake happens and cannot be prolonged by our efforts. Many events in my life were made "the worst thing happening to humankind" but none of them endured the years but seized to be seen as life endangering.
I don't remember if it was you or someone else talking about the personal perception of freedom. And that one can feel free no matter the circumstances. Right now I do lack this state of being and I hope, I'll get it back some day.
Sincere greetings to you.
You say well. It is not about giving up but about adapting.
Sorry... I couldn't understand, maybe it's something from the language, what do you mean?
Maybe it was me, or maybe it was someone else, but I do believe that a person can not only feel, but be free, despite external circumstances. It is a matter of decision. We decided.
What I mean is that people are good at ignoring miseries and over time relativising a malady that was initially considered or perceived as catastrophic, or forgetting the state of affairs or pushing it far into the background.
I remember well my youth and later younger adult self and how we were scared off by school teachers and the media because of, for example, AIDS or the Chernobyl disaster. I did not directly experience any of the threatening effects or masses of people falling ill, and in the course of my life I began to take the horror stories less seriously, either because I was unable to do anything directly about them anyway or because I realised that the news reports were exaggerated.
Just the other day I saw an interesting contribution on the topic of global warming, in which the author had recited interesting horror stories from about a hundred years ago from picked-up newspapers. In it, journalists were already terribly worried in the early 1900s because the sea above Norway was not completely frozen over in winter. If you're interested, I'll send you the link with the video.
Is it clearer now what I meant?
Yeah, now I get it. :)
Don't worry, I know modern scientists are being just as alarmist about it today as they were then.