Distressing kind of day, but I can feel the difference in how much easier it is

Distressing kind of day, but I can feel the difference in how much easier it is to shoulder it versus, say, a year ago.

If I got the news I got today, in the middle of a bunch of people standing in a circle screaming unreasonable demands at each other 500 characters at a time, while the political Whatever looms on the horizon, I'd probably be donezo for the rest of the week.