I'm not one for "cancel culture", particularly because it requires you to subscribe to this infantile notion that people have inflexible personality traits that are ever-present and are unable to be changed moving on into the future. The real deal is people say or do things that are out of character at times; your mindset when you're eating oatmeal in the morning is not the same as your mindset when you just banged your knee on the corner of the desk. Different situations and social contexts get different responses out of a person.

This is important to realize during energy like we have now, when people are more likely to be ornery in a social sense. We have this way of looking at individual situations and putting our entire weight of judgment on the information we have at hand when there might be a lot more going on behind the scenes. The person blowing up on the manager at the supermarket might be fresh off getting a flat tire on the way there. Things happen and people carry the mood derived from them into other encounters throughout the day.

With that said, firstly, you want to try and avoid being the person causing havoc around them as much as possible. If you need to let off some steam, find reasonable outlets for that. Secondly, if you notice others around you caught in that whirlwind, don't be so quick to cast final judgment on them. If it's someone close, this is a good time to dig deeper and try to lend a helping hand. Lastly, keep your expectations for others lower here and give them some room to rise to meet them. If you're too strict or demanding, it's only going to frustrate you, which will make situations worse. It's not the easiest transit to deal with, but if you conduct yourself reasonably, you can make it through okay. Best of luck.

Bud

When you can't find a solution in a short amount of time, you can start to default to "brute force" types of solutions. Sometimes these are effective, but too frequently they will not be. Before breaking everything around you and potentially do things that can't be undone, you want to take a step back and see if there's a better plan of action. You might not instantly have all the answers you need, but you can at least set yourself up to be in a better position to find them, rather than trying anything and hoping for the best.

...Show some Love...