Ask HN: How are you staying positive?
With everything going on during the first few months of 2020, it might start to feel like a struggle to keep a positive mindset.
I am worried for the elderly, and for the poor. But this also revived my astonishment and appreciation of how magical our bodies are, in having a mechanism to fight previously unseen attacks and develop antibodies. It's really humbling.
If you are finding that doesn't make too much of a difference, keep a gratitude diary, take St John's Wort and limit the news you are consuming.
It's amazing how little it takes to pull you out of even the darkest places.
Look after yourself :)
The real way to get through this isn't by trying to be happy. That is a shallow goal destined to fail. I remember reading about how that actually killed people in the story of Hanoi Hilton from the book Good To Great.
Instead be productive. Build something, write something, or help someone. Stay active. Go jogging or exercise. Set realistic goals, crush them, and then set more goals.
Things could be far worse. The whole world could be crumbling around you. You could be isolated in a holocaust death camp. You could one day lose everything. Bad things happen to good people. As bad as things could get people still find a way to make the best of it. What's important is that you accept the reality that is and how you move forward and stay focused.