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When historical examples of resilience feel impossible to emulate

I cannot stop thinking about how people during the plague or World War Two had to keep living normal lives during horrible times and I do not know how to do that with everything falling apart now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Comparing present struggles to idealized historical endurance overlooks the moment-by-moment reality of how humans actually navigate difficulty.

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