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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 09:28 PM Dec 2015

Washiington Post: Here are 15 things you can do when the world feels like a terrible place

Yes, this is one of those list things that can be annoying - but IMHO it's a very worthwhile read.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/12/07/here-are-15-things-you-can-do-when-the-world-feels-like-a-terrible-place/

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Laquan MacDonald was seventeen and murdered by a Chicago police officer in cold blood. I watched the video of his murder, along with most of America, right in between reading about how Americans are terrified of letting refugees from war-torn Syria into the country, and reading about how a man with a rifle opened fire at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado.

Then last Wednesday, fourteen innocent people were murdered during a company meeting and holiday lunch in San Bernardino, California.

I can’t think of anything else to say that hasn’t already been said about how horrible and sad and awful and bleak and unfathomable all of those things are. I can’t. I don’t have the words for that today. So instead, here are fifteen things that you can do to make your world just the tiniest bit less terrible.
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