SDMB Dopers -please advise how do you retain your basic empathy and humanity in these troubled days?

December 24th 1968. I was 11.

Squint real hard. I’m there!

It’s Christmas Eve and I would have been in my PJ’s staring at the pile of presents under the :christmas_tree:

It’s one brief second of my existence captured on film.

That’s equally true of the other billions of people that were alive on that day.