Permission.
You are standing at the center of an information storm no human nervous system was designed to process, collecting and sorting headlines, alerts, tragedies, opinions, expert warnings, private messages, and the quiet needs of the people you love, all while trying to make ordinary decisions about dinner, deadlines, and whether you are doing enough. The stakes feel planetary and personal at the same time, and the scale of crisis can make even the most conscientious person feel microscopic and ineffective. You are aware of wars you cannot stop, policies you cannot rewrite, markets you cannot predict, climates you cannot impact, and yet you are expected to continue functioning as though this awareness carries no cost. The churn of events is constant, tragic, and often amplified beyond proportion, and it can create the illusion that inaction equals complicity and that any pause equals failure. It is important to note that one human being cannot address the entire world’s suffering, and the f...
