From Wars to Inflation: How to Keep Your Sanity When the World Feels Like It’s Burning
- Zahra Khan
- 9 hours ago
- 2 min read
One sunrise scroll and you’re staring at three wars, a shaky economy and a grocery bill that feels like punishment.
In Gaza, the death toll passes 56,000 while leaders argue about the price of a cease-fire. At home, the Federal Reserve now expects inflation to linger around 3 percent through year-end 2025, higher than anyone hoped. And finally, the recent tension between Is-rael and Iran has closed the airspace, leaving travelers strangled for days and potentially starting a WW3.
If your chest feels tight, you’re not dramatic; you’re human.
Why the Headlines Hurt So Much
Six in ten Gen Zers say the constant crisis cycle leaves them feeling overwhelmed.
Forty-three percent of U.S. adults report that inflation directly hurts their mental health, with 69 percent naming rising prices as the main culprit.
Your nervous system can’t always tell the difference between danger on the screen and danger at your door.
None of this means you’re broken. It means you’re paying attention.
Protecting Your Mind Is Not Indifference, It’s Resistance
I give myself 15 minutes at lunch to read reliable updates, then I put the phone down. Boundaries ≠ apathy; they keep you functional enough to help.
Donate $10, sign a petition, email a senator. Action shrinks the monster under the bed.
Follow journalists, not rumor accounts. Mute keywords when you need to sleep.
Practices Keeping Me Sane Right Now
Sunset walk, phones off
Journaling “I survived today”
Prayer & dhikr after Fajr
Friday digital-detox evenings
Monthly budget check-in
Faith, Hope & the Quiet Power of Ordinary Good
Maybe we’re not meant to shoulder the planet but we are each assigned a square meter of it. Light candles, plant basil, tutor a kid in algebra, smile at the refugee mom in line. These are rebellions against despair.
Because while wars redraw borders and inflation redraws budgets, love redraws hearts. And a heart that stays soft in a hard world can’t help but change it.
Until next time, Peace ☀️
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