Basically just "what's your happy place?"
For me, there's this obscure card game that I was really into years ago. It's out of print, the company shut down years ago. But there's still a very small online community that discusses it (and by small I mean like, maybe a post every two weeks on the message board) and it's kinda nice to see people still talking about it. And I have thousands of these cards I still need to sort so I can finally try and get at least a copy of every card before it becomes so obscure you can't even find copies.
Whenever I'm feeling doomer about the state of the world or even just mentally ground down by life, I get those cards out and start sorting. I can easily lose a few hours that way but I'm vibing the whole time. Just wish I had more time for it.
So what about you all? Just be careful not to dox yourself or anything.
I don't really feel like a doomer. I think things will work out for the world and I'm glad I can look to places like China that, if literally nothing else, are pointed in the right direction. I just don't things will work out for me. Not in my lifetime. So all I can really do is try and stay informed but not be what people would call extremely online. I don't like to obsess over what some tool said on Twitter or some news story no one will remember in an hour. I just try to make the most of life as is, but that's really not much and I don't have much capacity to make it better right now. Being poor and mentally ill in the southern states really sucks, y'all!