Drop anchor, not your basket

The world is on fire. It's hard to process it all, let alone fight it. Here's how to stay grounded during the most trying times

- SEEMA GOSWAMI

It happens to all of us at one time or another. Everything around us seems to be going wrong. The weather is terrible; the water supply is erratic; your child has a toothache that is keeping him up all night; your demanding boss insists that you come in to work even when the city roads are flooded after a thunderstorm.

In addition to all these domestic travails, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. There is no sign that the war in Ukraine will end anytime soon; the Israel-Gaza conflict goes from bad to worse; the next President of the United States ― and leader of the free world - will be a doddering old man not in complete charge of his faculties, no matter which of the two candidates is elected.