'I stopped feeling powerless': how donating to charities online helped my pandemic blues

One writer’s generosity had an unexpected benefit – she felt more resilient because she was doing what she couldWhen lockdown came into force I started walking – just for an hour, three or four miles at a time, to nowhere in particular. Like everyone, I was bewildered by the events of the pandemic and almost wholly convinced that it would all kind of blow over in a week or two. But then a week passed, and then two. In my flat in south London, my housemate and I watched the news each night with a growing sense of powerlessness.The death toll was reported, the figures dissected, then re-reported and re-dissected. And alongside these were stories of myriad personal tragedies – of frontline workers who’d lost their lives, of families who’d lost their livelihoods and of the pain of isolation for those who had already been pretty isolated before the pandemic. On the one hand, I felt embarrassed that I was doing nothing, but on the other, so overwhelmed that it was hard to work out what, exactly, I should do. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/hit-refresh/2020/jul/03/i-stopped-feeling-powerless-how-donating-to-charities-online-helped-my-pandemic-blues #hit_refresh