A dear friend of mine sent me an article recently and part of a sentence jumped out at me.
It was about how some people’s view of life had changed after Covid, “life is fragile and 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.” 
A lot of us act as if we can do absolutely everything but then we end up burned out and possibly resentful.
After reading the article, I looked up the author.
Nora McInerny has several books out and I love the summary of Bad Vibes Only: she turns her eye on our aggressively, 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, our obsession with self-improvement, and what it really means to live authentically in the online age.
I’ve mentioned toxic positivity before and how it can hurt us. Where we have to find the positive in every situation.
But then when something bad or terrible happens, how can we possibly handle it if we have to see the good in everything?
Some things that happen are 
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We need to know we can handle them. We need to know we didn’t “deserve” them.
We need to know how to handle them and not pretend everything is good.