[Serious] How Do You Cope?

[Tonus]

As the world turns to shit and the future looks bleak everywhere you look with bad news and more bad news every day, what still moves you forward?

I find life to be pretty awesome in a general sense, even as I get older and closer to the last day that I will ever exist.

I also think that humanity has --in spite of all of our disadvantages and near-misses-- built a pretty amazing world around ourselves. We may never reach our potential (I doubt that we will, not without tens of thousands of years of continued evolution) but we achieved a heck of a lot, in spite of ourselves. In the end, we'll be gone. That might take a few million years, or it might only take a few thousand, but that's where it's all headed.

Of course, by then I'll be long gone. In the meantime, I have enjoyed my life and hope to enjoy it for a couple of decades more if I am lucky. I guess I'm not wired to spend too much time worrying about it. Ironically, my past life as a Jehovah's Witness probably helps in some ways, since they do not believe in the concept of eternal torment. I always understood that the end was just that, and not something to fear. I suppose my only concern is that I'll miss out-- I won't see how things turn out. But it's not like it'll be nagging me, or anything.