Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about maintaining hope right now.

I'm going to start off with a quick story.

When I first joined the military, I was on an obstacle course.

It's just like the commercials. There's logs and ropes and bars and walls.

On one of the obstacles, I fell in the water. I got up and I went to the next obstacle.

Well, when I got to the next water obstacle, the instructor whose uniform was still very clean

and dry asked me to get in the water and help anybody who fell

because I was already a mess. So I got in the water. And it's not long before this airman falls in.

It's been decades since this happened. And I still remember her name. She was in my flight, and also because she

tried to kill me. She didn't mean to, but when she hit the water, she panicked. I'm short, as you guys

have commented, and I could stand with my head above water and my feet planted.

She could have put her feet down and quickly realized she could stand up.

But panic overrides reason and creates irrational non-adaptive behavior.

If that feeling hits, you don't know what to do next.

It took a minute. I got her out. It was a struggle and I was exhausted afterward, but we managed to get to safety. So I got this question. Hi, I'm Miss Bell. I've always loved this channel because it's a positive space. And I really appreciate it so much. A lot of left spaces are full of

doomers even when things are okay. It's really bad right now. Everybody is feeling like everything

is going bad, and it makes it really hard to stay active. Just wondering if you have any advice

about how to deal with it. I'm in South Florida,

and people are really worried about hurricanes and the idea of being on their own. The doomerism

is dragging me down and making it hard to maintain hope. I know we'll get through this one way or

another,

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