Me? I'm in a good place. Just got a clean bill of cardiac health. Married. Kid. We game together, I have internet access, so there's an entire world of books and music for me to enjoy. Our chickens are healthy and happy despite the rooster having lost many feathers to a feral dog.

Nobody is sick, there's no drama ongoing that is disturbing anything (there's always some drama somewhere in a family the size of the ones my parents come from, it just isn't drama that touches us), and we manage to stay afloat financially between everyone that lives here.

There's still plenty of bad stuff going on, but currently, the weight of it isn't making the good hard/impossible to enjoy.

Like you, I know damm good and well that there's going to be bad stuff coming. And the longer the bad lasts, the harder it is to keep going. When that's happening, I just keep reminding myself that everything is impermanence. No good lasts forever, but neither do the bad times. And, it's not something where everythingis bad, or everything is good. There's always a little of each present, so it's usually possible to hold on when things are truly horrible.

As far as the bad though? I'm disabled. Arthritis, back issues, nerve damage in my lower body, constant pain that can surge into agony with no warning. My dad is getting old enough that his health isn't great, same with my mom. My wife is disabled too, and you can't have a teenager without there being something that's going wrong. So, I know that there's going to be bad times, and they'll probably be soon. It's gong to be hard to hold on through them. But! I've made it through five decades worth of bad times, and the last ten have been the best of my life despite the disability and pain and loved ones dying off along the way.