This could go both ways so trigger warning to people with depression and if you’re religious we will not agree on this, but I find a great liberation and happiness from knowing that in the grand scheme of things, none of it really matters. Humans are not the end all be all species of the universe. Our solar system is one of theoretically infinite solar systems.

Make the world beautiful, or don’t. At the end of the day, or even a million years, it doesn’t really matter. Just do what makes you happy and live your life the way you want to live it, Hopefully you’ll let others live the way they want to, but again, it doesn’t really matter what you or anybody else does. Rocks in space won’t remember any of us.

The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.

As bad as it is today, we've had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won't come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.

Physics -> chemistry -> biology. The further you zoom in, the more you come to grips with the just staggering number of hugely improbable events that lead to us being here. I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this, as it really hides the beauty of it all.

Rainbows after rainstorms make me feel like the world is gonna be ok although humans keep trying to destroy everything.

This book is full of them

The author also had a few great TED talks on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

So like a reverse Last Week Tonight?

Rage Against The Machine

This book is currently boosting my morale:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781529931242