#itsgonnabefine

[haxyr3]

The message of the week:

Everything is going to be fine, But everything is going to be different.

Vocabulary: По-другому - different(ly), in a different way.

[gwenaex]

~Tides don’t last forever and when they go, they leave behind beautiful seashells.

[wondrousity]

C. S. Lewis on the Coronavirus

Lewis’s words—written 72 years ago—ring with some relevance for us. Just replace ‘atomic bomb’ with ‘coronavirus.’

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"In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. 'How are we to live in an atomic age?' I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.

“In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

“This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."

— C.S. Lewis, “On Living in an Atomic Age” (1948) in Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays

[larikappa]

#stupidstupidday #fuckingmercurretrograde #angrypink #itsgonnabefine #thistooshallpass https://www.instagram.com/p/B9RzUnspMk1/?igshid=1v73j6v02vw3m

[feadingfiretiger]

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#Repost @citizenway ・・・ IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL! If you’re overwhelmed and needing some comfort like me @bencalhoun today then this is for you! #overwhelmed #itsgonnabefine #citizenway #sing #dontgiveup #jesussavesbro #wavewalker https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLQ9W_F_TN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nuru50pl42gk

[theladyliz]

Oh, just contemplating the massive weekend workload I've allowed to build up over the week by a series of poor decisions 😤 #buticandoittho #itsgonnabefine #probably #playhard #workharderbecauseofprocrastination (at Appalachian State University) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBGRf7hY0e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4dwx8knsqnfs

[abud-a-bard]

Whipped this up to hang in my house for when I get stuck in my own head. . . . . #abudabard #staymotivated #getoveryourself #comics #onepanelcomic #itsgonnabefine #stickfigure #mindfulness #forthelulz #stuckinmyhead (at Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois)