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Every year in the USA, more than 4,400 children and teens are shot and k****d and over 17,000 more are shot and wounded.
More deaths, all childrens, each year.
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"Canadian soldiers during WW2 had a higher survival rate than children sent to these schools"
Once you learn something, you can’t magically unknow it. Coming to terms with reality can be difficult and humbling.
You realize that even though your actions have consequences, you’re unable to control most things in life. You’re able to make the world a better place in small ways, but without massive resources and concerted global effort, you won’t be able to stop many of the horrible things happening right now.
And yet, life goes on. It’s unhealthy to spend all of your waking hours living in anxiety, ruminating about the countless things outside of your control. You do what you can to make other people’s lives better, but you have to accept the fact that barring a miracle or two, you probably won’t save the world overnight.
Something that might help you deal with all of this is practicing so-called radical acceptance. It’s the idea that you acknowledge situations that you can’t control without judgment so that you ease your emotional distress and suffering.
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In a nutshell, when you accept difficult situations as they are, you create space for healing, growth, and better emotional well-being. It also helps you avoid feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and regretful.
Verywell Mind explains that radical acceptance involves noticing your feelings, accepting what’s happening, letting go of judgment, and focusing on self-compassion and mindfulness. You steer away from denying, avoiding, or ignoring what’s actually happening so that you can process your feelings during difficult experiences in a more effective way.
You have to remind yourself that, in this moment, reality can’t be changed. However, despite everything, even when experiencing pain, your life can be worthwhile.
This doesn’t mean that you choose to be passive. Accepting what has happened, you make good choices and solve problems for the sake of a better future, instead of judging or blaming.
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Perhaps not as horrifying of some of the statistics already mentioned, but it’s always struck me as such a sad and lonely thing.
That some parents either can’t or won’t learn how to communicate and connect with their kids in a way that would be much easier for their child to understand.
What are the most horrifying facts and statistics about the world that you’ve ever learned, and how have they changed your life?
Do you prefer to know the cold, harsh truth about reality, or do you think ignorance is bliss to a certain extent? Do you ever wish that you could unknow certain things?
We’d like to hear your thoughts on this. Share them with us, as well as all the other readers, in the comments at the bottom of this list.
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However, when you dig into that statistic, you discover that 20%, or 1 in 5 people, are considered "low literacy proficiency". I was curious, so I looked into what that meant. It means they can read, but not sufficiently as to read a safety manual and absorb the information in it.
That is Terrifying.
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(And this is with less *number* of fires. So arson is down, reckless campfires are down, car exhaust ignitions are down, it’s the temperature and drought that is entirely responsible for the increase in acres, elevation and season length of burning).
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*Due to these statistics being outdated and incorrect due to an analysis error, I will quote the following - *What we find in the corrected analysis is we still see evidence that when wives become sick marriages are at an elevated risk of divorce, whereas we don’t see any relationship between divorce and husbands’ illness.*
Being strangled by a partner even once increases a woman's risk of being k****d by that person by 750%.
Two thirds of Australians will receive some kind of skin cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.
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This jarred me when I heard it in my early 20's, but made sense to me by my mid 30's.