As soon as 2020 began I felt weird, I just felt this free floating anxiety even before anything had really happened and I just had this feeling when I tried to picture the end of this year that something major was going to happen.
You could say I was simply worried given that this was an election year, but it was more than just that and it was weird, I just had a feeling this wouldn't be a normal year and sure enough I was right.
I think it's simply the fact that so much has happened so quickly, that's just not normal, it's like if 9/11 was followed by some other major catastrophic event just a month later.
It's so unusual that it genuinely has me wondering if it's supernatural.
As someone who also grew up with countless scares of end times (parents were basically scared into Christianity which explains a lot of things with my upbringing), let me offer some comforting advice.
The internet makes things scarier than they are because we see everything all at once. And given humanity's pension for focusing on the negative, it gets amplified further so 99% of the time you only hear about the disasters and atrocities. And at times it seems like there's more of it than usual, but you have to remember that that's the case for
any period in history. Sometimes shit just happens at a more frequent and extreme rate, be it natural or man-made.
Indeed, things seem worse than they are because this is the first time
we experience such times. As was already pointed out, people who lived during the world wars would fucking laugh at us seeing what we're getting scared of in terms of virus this riots that. The corruption in government is a bit more exceptional perhaps, but this latest stunt is already having massive ramifications that will only continue to grow against them as time goes on. As for more natural disasters, every time you hear "worst X weather on record" remember those last two words.
On record. Said records honestly don't go that far back and weather has always been crazy, so random back-to-back catastrophes are nothing new, not in the slightest.
I guess this is to say, bad things have happened in irregular and erratic intervals throughout time, and will continue to happen. Not much you can really do about it but focus on your own life and the lives of those around you. Be aware of what goes on in the world, it's smart to be informed, but it's just as well to take a break from it all sometimes and live in the small moments.