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Liz Plank's avatar

what keeps you resilient?

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Abbie's avatar

Spite. I refuse to let these assholes win.

I've never seen "precedented times" to know what those might look like, but the sun has been rising for over four million years, it will rise again tomorrow. We can get through this just like we have every other unprecedented event.

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Liz Plank's avatar

protest out of spite!! 🔥 i love that

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Bee's avatar

Taking actual action keeps me resilient. Yes to hope (I'm almost perpetually hopeful, against all odds, and I do think that's a strength), but also yes to *creating* hope by showing up and doing what we can. And that will look different for everyone: from writing this newsletter, to marching in the streets, to speaking up when your great-aunt Lori starts in on the conspiracy theories. But doing something instead of nothing...I feel that's what keeps me resilient.

And in addition to that...finding joy! Continuing to find places or people or things that I thoroughly enjoy, in spite of all the insane things that are happening right now.

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Chris Collins's avatar

It's genuinely insane that the first generation of Americans in at least 100 years who will finish with less wealth than their parents is so continuously mocked. Nobody works hard harder for less than millennials.

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Liz Plank's avatar

and despite being mocked we persist in our optimism!!!

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KJ's avatar

I needed this pep talk. Thank you, Liz Plank!

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Liz Plank's avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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Rachel La Costa (she/her)'s avatar

We’ve been preparing our entire lives for this moment 🙃 (starting to believe “precedented” times are a fairytale)

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Emerson White's avatar

If I don't @ you how am I supposed to get you to read the important message I sent you last summer? Here and on IG.

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