It's Very Possible To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed …Don’t find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay, because everything is not okay. If you spend your life squirming around trying to avert your gaze from the truth and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality, you will never know actual happiness. Instead, find your happiness in that which cannot be corrupted by this fraudulent dystopia. Your connections with your loved ones. That’s real and authentic. The radiance of the natural world. That’s real and authentic. The crackling aliveness of the senses. That’s real and authentic. The boundless peace deep down at the heart of your being which reveals itself if you listen closely enough. That’s real and authentic. These things can supply endless happiness, even as the world burns, and even as you weep at its burning. Because it is entirely possible to honor the grief and tragedy of this world while also delighting in its beauty. You can weep for the dying oceans while marveling at the stars. You can rage for Gaza while reveling in the earth beneath your bare feet. You can open your heart to all the suffering and to all the wonder. You can fall to your knees in both anguish and gratitude. You can do these things because feelings move through you if you don’t cling to them. You feel them fully without resistance, you invite them in to have their say, and then you let them leave when they are done. It usually doesn’t take long; a few minutes, maybe even seconds. Then you get up and go back to marveling at the miracle… https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/its-very…