Two Things Can Be True At Once

«How are you holding up?”

That may be the most common question being asked around the world these days.

I’ve posed it to dozens of people. Several have asked me the same.

Two answers are common.

“Devastated,” or something similar is one.

“I have good days and bad days” is another – a toggling between optimism and pessimism.

I find myself in the latter. I can go from seeing optimistic signs of progress in the morning to feeling like we’re doomed by dinner, repeating the cycle the next day. Sometimes the shifts occur minutes apart. On net I’m still confident we’ll get through this. But occasionally I recalibrate what “this” means, and it’s exhausting.

When emotions swing from one side to the other it can be tempting to not trust either. But sometimes it’s fine to have conflicting emotions, because two opposite things can be true at the same time.

A few I’ve been thinking about:

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