Our friend group used to joke about the apocalypse but now when we get together there's this heavy silence about what's actually happening to the world. Some of us have gone full prepper mode, others are in complete denial, and the rest of us are just trying to figure out how to keep showing up for normal life when nothing feels normal anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community of friends is fracturing along the fault lines of how to metabolize collective loss, each coping mechanism creating distance from the others.
“Where Are You with Anticipatory grief for civilization?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.