The reality is setting in that people simply do not care about making the world a better place. It is breaking my heart, and I do not know how to reconcile my thoughts. I’m sorry to be such a downer here but I don’t know where else to share.

Perhaps the climate catastrophe, human suffering, and inequality is so large and so much out of people’s hands that even people who care have come to a state of learned helplessness. However, there are things within people’s control that doesn’t change. At work, I listen to a coworker frustrated about a simple problem. It would be a simple change to make this person’s job much less painful, but he “just works here”. It’s just such a dumb problem to waste hours of someone’s life on. To a certain extent, I can’t blame him, because a lot of people just work to survive.

I want to make the world a better place. A world where people have all there basic needs met, live in balance with nature, and have a right to self determination. A world where humanity strives to be the best version of itself. I can’t help but get sad or frustrated when I see something wrong. I can’t help but feel like I’m a downer to my friends when I point these things out. They don’t disagree with me, but it just seems like a depressing topic. People seem generally content to live their normal lives. In the same way, I can’t blame them. It won’t build a better future, but they deserve to be happy.

Maybe my coworkers are right, and that I’m too naïve. Maybe my friends are right, and that I’m too empathetic for my own good. I am envious that they can turn off the thing in their head that worries, or wants to make things better, and that they can just enjoy life. A more utopian future is generations away, or maybe never. If I can’t effect change, maybe I should find an outlet, or stop caring, or something. idk, sorry for yapping. if you’re reading this i hope you have a good day

  • whoever loves Digit@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 天前

    I’m not attacking you here

    I find it really sad that you’re not attacking the person you replied to, when they are quite brutally attacking someone vulnerable.

    Also sad that they have a multi-point-positive vote score.

    Glad I’m not the only one to at least call them out at all, though.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      21·
      1 天前

      I’m not attacking the OP.

      I’m arguing the sense of despair they feel is a consequence of an inflated sense of their own individuality and relevance.

      The problem with being stuck in that spiral is that if you parse being told you’re not in charge of saving the world single-handedly as an attack you’re locking yourself from getting out of that spiral, and if you don’t break out of thinking you’re in charge of saving the world single-handedly you also get stuck in that spiral.

      So hey, is it a harsh thing to hear? Probably. But also, if you go on the Internet to ask about it, maybe hearing it isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you as a result. It’s likely better than some pity party about how the world is going to end because everybody is evil, which is, frankly, probably a terrible thing to do to a person coming at you from that perspective.