Today, I will end two friendships/paths

One with a man who works for a system I despise and I was admittedly not that trustful of, and another with someone who bombarded me with images of pain. I don’t need the violence to care; I care more than I can express. But this kind of exposure, this constant barrage of brutality, it does nothing but distort my mind, filling it with chaotic emotion then numbing it with despair. It achieves nothing. I need clarity of thought to act, not a flood of horror to drown in.