How can anyone write or read stories on self-improvement right now?

I follow Tim Denning, you do too, probably. I am not a fan of other motivational gurus, but I like Tim’s writing. It’s simple and humble.

I get emails from Tim to my inbox. I don’t know if it’s through Medium or because I subscribed on his website.

I got one or two in the last few days. I saw the subject lines and thought — what the fuck? How is this relevant today?

I know — the world goes on; there are a lot of good and bad things happening in parallel. It’s life.

Still — there is a terrible war raging. Millions are suffering from the actual war. Millions — in the occupying country — are being lied to, by a single individual.

Maybe it’s just me. I’m Russian. The war in Ukraine shocked me like nothing else in my adult life. I wrote several stories on this tragic topic and don’t want to repeat myself.

How does it feel if you have nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine, I wonder. It’s probably big news, by any measure. But how does it really feel? Does it feel as big as September 11th for example? Or is it, at the end of the day, some regional conflict ten thousand miles away; bad but it’s ten thousand miles away.

How does it feel?

I feel awful. I can’t focus on anything.

I’m not being critical, not virtue signaling; just curious.