Things will be okay

(Making a rare break from my 3-word-title rule).


I just have to keep going. Things will be okay. Other people will have to step up in my absence and shoulder some of the responsibilities. And it's okay for me, going forward, to say "no" to stuff if I really don't have the time and doing the stuff will cut into my ability to function.



Things will be okay. The bad stuff in the world will somehow get sorted out, hopefully with not-too-tragic outcomes for the people caught in the crossfire.



The family member in my extended family who is having health problems...they are unlikely to be something fatal and are probably something treatable. Things will be okay.




I'm getting my research work done. I'm getting ready for travel. Things will be okay.

If I keep on saying it, maybe I'll start believing it....things will be okay.

(I mean, I believe in a 'cosmic' or eschatological sense, things will be okay....but it's kind of like, I don't know, having some kind of medical or dental issue right now, say, abdominal surgery: you know eventually it will be better but there's a lot of pain and worry to get through before you're there.)


I need to focus on the little things that make me happy: the thought of winding off the yarn for my over-break projects. The fact that a friend (hi, purlewe!) pointed out to me that Sublime Stitching now has the right to produce Moomin-themed embroidery patterns, so I can eventually make those Moomin pillowcases I was talking about years ago.