(#6233) It isn't aging that is trying my soul, it is trump!

      I am still relatively vibrant even though I am in my seventies. I get urges and self motivations to apply myself to short and long term projects. I still feel young inside despite the evidence of my appearance being contrary. However, I have a big heart and that part of me is being crushed daily by the most vile leader America has ever been duped into voting into office. He is the epitome of a living nightmare. I am fully in acknowledgement that he will never change from his despicableness so there is no hope settled on that certain impossibility. So how do I and we cope with him when he still has much time left to dishonor and cause suffering in our lives?
     For me, it is not looking or hearing anything about him. The ignorance is a blissful paradigm. However I do need to stay informed as to his activities as they concern me and our nation. So through trusted second hand sources do I rely. Of course with several confirmations as possible. I am duped at times with hoped for outcomes but then quickly remove from my being the false hope. Otherwise I endure to live and not die under his shameful oppressive tactics. It isn't as bad for me as it is for others so I know I am fortunate that way but my credo is that if it happens to you it well may happen to me and that is unacceptable. Not that I am harmed in some way but that anyone targeted is harmed.
     My will to fight against this trump styled oppression is there and will remain so but it does take so much out of me as to make my bones sore. All that is good within me is brought to the fore in order to align with my resolve yet now it is so trying to my soul. I have faced trying times as a young man but then I had the vigor of youth and the determination of unlimited purpose. Even though I was emotionally drained by those early experiences I was still strong in my bones. Not so much now that I am much older. The aches and pains to my soul are real and can be arduously numbing. I am angry at this state of things and I know that some kind of change must occur if this feeling is ever going to stop!