Sometimes I feel like whatever I'd do it won't be enough. What/where I buy or where I donate seem trivial in the larger scheme of things. From extreme power concentration to world hunger. From climate change to AI safety. Too many things that I'd like to change, but I feel powerless sometimes. The feeling comes coupled with a sense of guilt of not doing enough and not being enough. Do you guys get this feeling too? How do you deal with it?

I do believe in the necessity of optimism in order to affect change, but sometimes hope is hard to cultivate. How do you guys keep your optimism up?

Thanks for reading my mini-rant.

Also, the meme is not OC

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is why they say ignorance is bliss.

I put energy into hobbies and spend time doing things with people IRL whenever possible.

I don't plan on having kids but I've worked with them my whole life. I would recommend spending time with children and vicariously seeing the world through their eyes.

My last line of cope is thinking about how many problems we're facing have either always been a problem that we're still trying to solve, or a problem that inherently doesn't get solved until reality forces us. By framing fascism, climate change, bigotry, etc this way the problems seem less immediately existential. Like, it almost seems obvious that human beings would consume the planet unless the consequences of such forced us to change our ways.

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