What now?

The day has come and gone, so what now?  If you’re anything like me, you’ve been asking yourself and others that question for the past 10 days.  There are various methods of organizing and collectivizing to combat the onslaught of destructive changes that are to come over the next (hopefully no more than) 4 years.  Like-minded voices have been debating these methods and ideas and will continue to do so, as the majority of us will be suffering– some communities more so than others– and so it is only natural to figure out how to combat or stop it.  While I have my list of thoughts on that, I want this blog to focus on what I would recommend from one person to another to make the best of their day-to-day life instead of what I would recommend as mass movement.  

Check in on yourself.  Check in on those you love.  Check in on your community.  If all is remotely well with all of the above, take advantage of that.  Surround yourself with friends, family, and/or community, and surround them with yourself.  Take a break.  Go to the gym, read that book, finish that show, and start that hobby.  Start and maintain a morning routine and eat well.  In a moment like this where we feel powerless, we have to remember that we at least have the power to take care of ourselves with what we have.  Many of those in the movement that won bank on and are motivated by our ill-being in the aftermath of their victory, so do what you can to make it a pure fantasy for them.  It's almost the least we can do.

By no means, stop fighting.  Do what you see fit to combat what seems inevitable.  Organize, educate, protest.  But none of this can be done to its fullest potential if we simultaneously drain ourselves of all positive emotion and drive ourselves exclusively on any understandable hatred that we feel as a result of what is happening.  He may have won, but he doesn’t have to win.