Stay Soft In Hard Times

How to Keep Your Heart Open When the World Feels Closed

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The world feels heavy lately.

New wars. Social tension. Protests. Aviation disasters. AI causing us to lose trust in reality. Normalized political madness. It feels like the world is getting darker by the day, and we’re just all watching it happen from our phones.

As the world flurries with chaos, the temptation is to harden. To put up walls. To assume the worst about everyone. To keep a sharp eye out so we are prepared for the next catastrophe. To let the weight of everything wrong with the world make you cynical and cold.

And honestly? That response makes total sense. When you’re surrounded by chaos, armor—whether it be physical, mental, or chemical—feels like a logical choice.

But here’s what I’ve been thinking about: In the face of harshness, the wise move isn’t becoming as hard as the world around you. The wisest, most rebellious move is refusing to let a harsh world make you harsh, too.

Think of a tree in a storm. The branches that survive aren’t the rigid ones, they are the ones that bend without breaking. They flow with the wind and do their own thing instead of trying to absorb everything that’s coming at them at once.

Right now, we’re all living through multiple storms at once. The political storm. The social storm. The climate storm. Everything feels unstable.

The natural response is to brace against it all. Close your heart. Stop trusting. Assume things will only get worse. Let the darkness in the headlines seep into how you see everything.

And hey, I get it. Some days, if you doomscroll long enough, hope can start to feel naive. Kindness feels too vulnerable. Caring can feel like setting yourself up for disappointment.

Though if we look deeply, we can see the truth: the world doesn’t need more hardened people. It has plenty of those already. What it desperately needs are people who refuse to let the harshness make them harsh too.

People who still believe in human goodness despite the evidence we’re shown to the contrary. People who choose connection in an age of division. People who plant gardens while others predict the apocalypse. People who love their neighbors, while the news tells them to fear strangers.

This mindset isn’t about being blind to reality. The problems are serious. The suffering is real. But meeting harshness with more harshness has never solved anything. Responding to anger with anger only creates more anger. Adding cynicism to cynicism just makes everything heavier.

The most radical thing you can do right now is stay soft in a hard world. That means choosing generosity, kindness, patience, healthy habits, and faith in the inherent goodness in humanity, even when parts of humanity feel hopeless.

Not because you’re naive. Because you understand that someone has to be the antidote. Someone has to be the person who turns poison into medicine.

When you move through the world connected to your heart, staying open and loving even when it’s tough, you set an example. You show others it’s possible to hold gentle strength while most people are holding nothing but tension.

Being human in inhumane times is about sharing your light, warmth, and stubborn refusal to let the darkness of the world dim your light.

Naturally, you might wonder, why me? Why must I be the one to stay strong, do the work, and share the goodness?

It’s not that you have to. It’s that you get to. See, when you stay focused on your heart, remain open, bring forth compassion, and keep your attention on harmony and wisdom, you aren’t just sharing that energy with those around you.

You’re generating a warmth—like a sun—that shines all around you. And if the light of wisdom and kindness is shining all around you, it’s all you will be able to see as you move through your own life.

That’s one of the most beautiful lessons I can teach you, my friend. When you are loving, warm, and kind, you’re not just sharing that love with others. You’re sharing it with yourself at the same time.

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Sending love and slowness,

Cory