LIghthouse keepers will never be memorialized like soldiers or cops because they didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job) but they’re like, heroes who saved untold lives through discipline and self-sacrifice doing an impossible lonely job and I’m worked up about it
Clinging to a swaying tower in freezing, driving rain, risking death by everything from pneumonia to a fall to a fucking lightning strike to keep the lantern going when you don’t even KNOW if someone is out on the water!! Working! Class! Heroes!
Love very much the sentiment of this post and also love the specific wording of “didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job)” because what lighthouse keepers did off hours is their own business
All right, guys, the rest of tonight is (possibly) going to be spent tracking the progress on the Ever Given, a 400-meter-long container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal and is currently struck.
Okay, based on this new information, this very obvious dick+balls carefully carved out in the water for anyone with GPS access to see:
1. This is not an accident.
2.
The “unexpected winds turned a 205 bafuckjillion metric ton container ship into a sailboat” cover story has now been blown to shit.
3. Somebody is making a statement.
4. Dude(s) possibly grounded the ship on purpose then fucked off.
5. Direct action?
6. Soft terrorism?
7. SOMEbody sure had a plan.
Regardless of whether we ever learn the truth, even if they unstick the ship immediately while I’m typing this? It’s gonna fuck up about two dozen international economies. This is only slightly less oh shit than the ending of Fight Club (1999).
We’ll be seeing ripple effects for a year. At least.
Recovery is possible but it’s a lot less possible when you beat yourself up for what you can’t do, or force yourself beyond your limits, or ignore or refuse to accept that you’re struggling or you’re unwell, or constantly blame yourself for your perfectly reasonable reactions to horrible life circumstances.
I know that none of those things are easy to stop doing, but you can learn to in time. It’s going to be a lot harder to recover if you’re not kind to yourself and understanding and accepting of your limitations.
