Apologies for the long post... I felt this way too.
I ditched my social media which has massively helped with my positivity in general. I'm a firm believer that you are who you surround yourself with, and my feeds had been quite... hostile as of late. I'm Canadian and the American politics poison seeps into our social media and news cycles. Masked folk (superheroes) fighting with anti-mask folk (people who hate those protecting them). I was tired of seeing the negativity, so I checked out. I have to say I've been significantly happier without social media or regular news. I know that ignoring the world isn't a great long term solution, but the issues that seem to be flooding my feeds shall pass in due time, the ban-hammer will fall on those who I have found most unbearable (often both sides of every topic of discussion have their jackasses).
Onto some of the positive: I've gotten more personal projects done/ have them moving along at least. Right now I'm working on modding a Fallout T-51b Nuka Cola helmet. They were recalled due to a mold issue, so I decided to pick one up for SUPER cheap, tear it apart and build something cool. I'm going to be posting a help thread shortly on this project as I need some advice from the team on here, and like Foe Hammer and Echo 419, the community always delivers! I've landed on a colour scheme, which lead to a theme that then lead to an inside joke and now I have this monstrosity of a helmet on the go (it sidetracked me from my Halo Infinite build... but that is fine, I can circle back once I'm done).
I work in Public Relations for a University in Health Sciences, so for work I'm quite connected to the whole research side of the pandemic, progress seems to be happening towards finding vaccines and treatments which is EXCELLENT. Granted progress isn't success, but it is better than nothing! I've seen both the negative and the positives of this pandemic up close and personal. Sure there are people claiming it is a hoax, people refusing to wear masks, and people losing their loved ones and not being able to properly say goodbye (all negative, sorry about that) BUT there is also massive waves of positivity. I've seen people bonding or reconnecting via distance through video chat, I've seen people working tirelessly and thanklessly to make the world better, I've seen people bettering themselves through online learning and a general decentralization that may allow for long term changes to the way we live for the positive. Even in this group, regiments like the Canadian are banding together for an upcoming Secret Santa! There also seems to be a significant pollution decrease in my city, aspects of life are slowing down for people to enjoy the little things.
Today alone was wildly positive for me. I threw on a sweater, grabbed my laptop and worked outside surrounded by the changing leaves. I saw types of birds I've never seen before in my life in my own backyard. It was truly beautiful. I've also been doing "a scare a day" marathon, I'm basically watching horror films or TV shows... one a day every day for October. I'm looking forward to the Christmas/ Winter Holiday movie version I'll be doing in December. Oh, and I've gotten to catch up on a backlog of graphic novels and comics.
I hope each and every one of you finds small slivers of happiness and when possible create those slivers for other people. Everyone is struggling right now, and we are all in this together!