I am 80 years old , I’ve got some medical problems, which makes it hard to go out and have fun. My salvation has been my dog… I know it sounds simplistic ,

I don’t know what I would do without him. I never feel lonely, he goes everywhere with me. We go shopping, little walks cause I can’t walk very far. I talk to him and he listens. He’s always making me laugh.. I don’t know if that is something you would consider.. I wish you luck and hope you can find what you need. You are still a young person, so don’t give up..

There is a difference between “I don’t want to live anymore “ and “I don’t want to live LIKE THIS anymore” - yup, Mrs. Kim, you were right and I’m still around!

"Notice the feelings, like leaves on a river. Call them what they are, then let them go, let them float down the river past you. Don't judge yourself for having them, and don't engage with them. Simply acknowledge them, let them go, and move on."

I remember these words vividly because it's a coping strategy I use almost every day.

She asked if there was anything I wanted to do in my life that I no longer thought I could do. I told her that I wanted to go to law school but that was no longer in the cards for me. She said, “you know that you can still go to law school right? No one has to give you permission.”

I’ll be graduating with my JD in May of next year.
I doubt she understands the true impact of her simple statement that day.

Yellowstone is an actual super volcano that has blown up every 650,000 years or so.

That’s why it has so many hot springs and geysers… there’s f*****g lava underneath it.

 Its caldera is centered under the lake.

The lake has been getting warmer, and the center of it has risen a little bit.

If I recall correctly, it’s been about 650,000 years since the last time it blew up.

I don’t know how “likely” it is in our lifetime but the Yellowstone supervolcano will, eventually, blow.

Bacteria will become resistant to our antibiotics.

Things contributing to that are countries where they are over the counter, use in animals, s****y substandard d***s manufactured in developing countries with inadequate levels of the d**g, prescriptions of antibiotics for colds or flu.

Microplastics. Its being found everywhere in our environment and is already being discovered in the blood/tissues of wildlife and humans. Scientists dont even know what the long term health effects of this will be. I am betting on it being nothing good.

An often overlooked disaster is the rapid decline of insects, especially pollinators such as bees. Although bee extinction is not immediate, it could have a significant impact on global food resources, ecosystems and biodiversity. Without these pollinators, many crops would fail, leading to food shortages and economic disruption. But this important issue has not received enough attention.

AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) slowing/ halting. Melting of northern latitude glaciers are effectively hosing the North Atlantic Ocean with cold fresh water, disrupting the global conveyor belt in the ocean which redistributes heat across the planet. If AMOC slows enough (which we’re looking at happening within decades, not centuries) global weather patterns will shift entirely, Western Europe will freeze, the southern hemisphere will retain much more heat, sea level rise will increase significantly, the oceans will lose some of their capacity to sequester CO2 which in turn increases atmospheric warming, melting of glaciers, etc. generating a positive feedback loop
We really don’t want AMOC to stop lol.

My dad once said he wished he was working late the night I was conceived.

I told him mom said he was.

I was in a car accident in 2014, my ex said to me “I just wish you died, it would be so much easier”.