Save Yourself!

 As this week draws to a close on yet another litany of disasters, I find myself asking, once again, "Can things get any worse?" Why yes, Kim, they can! I'm ready to knock myself out and hibernate through the rest of 2020. Wake me in 2021 when, hopefully, we'll be getting a new POTUS and a better view of life. But, since I can't do that, I have to try and live through the remaining months of 2020 (or stay alive through the remaining months). In an effort to try and save myself and my own mental health, I'm trying to limit the amount of news I watch and read online. It's all just too much sometimes. I want to stay informed, but I don't want to start the day in a funk because I turned on the news while I was having my morning coffee. We all have to do what we can to try and get through life's difficulties and I'm all about self-care. How can you take care of anyone else if you can't take care of yourself? Take the advice of flight attendants all over the world. Put the mask on yourself before attempting to assist others with their mask placement. Get your own oxygen flowing and then move on to help others with their oxygen flow. 

There are two people (one is a family member and one isn't) who I have avoided calling because talking with them both is emotionally draining for me. I just don't feel like hearing their tales of woe. Every time I talk with these individuals, I feel depressed after the call and I just can't put myself through that right now, so I've avoided them both. I hope they get the hint and don't call me at least for a while. So far, so good. I know I should come clean with both of them and just tell them, "I don't really like talking to you" but I haven't reached that point yet. For now, I'm hoping they'll pick up on my lack of communication and stay away.