You've gotten really good advice in this thread and there's no point repeating it, so my contribution will be to be to encourage you to explore catastrophe. Lo

You've gotten really good advice in this thread and there's no point repeating it, so my contribution will be to be to encourage you to explore catastrophe. Look into some of the worst events ever to happen (world war 1 and 2 come to mind). Read about exactly how many people died and what the level of destruction was. And then read about how quickly people rebuilt their lives. How property rights and basic society bounced back. How absolute poverty was worked back to wealth. How beautiful humanitarian ideologies were birthed from massive destruction. We're talking trough to peak in under a decade in some cases. I'm an anxious personality and a pessimist through and through, but I'm super optimistic in the long run. Humanity is resilient and beautiful as heck.