I quite appreciate your compassion for all the morally scrupulous, and this new lens that the money and work I’ve been able to put in may well amount to something, something more meaningful than I ever care to recognize. It’s a bit of a throwback to being called an “essential worker” during COVID, working extra hours and hating it, yet always having such nice things said to me by friends, family, and strangers to keep in mind through it all.
Who would’ve thought that after discovering how to do way more for good causes than we thought possible, many of us would be more worried about not doing enough? I’m indeed not doing enough, because nobody is. If there was someone doing enough, factory farms wouldn’t exist, neither would diseases, nor any other suffering in the world, preventable or otherwise; just one instance of it is plenty horrible on it’s own.
The problems are bigger than we can comprehend, but so is the progress just a little care makes on solving them, let alone what sustained charitable action by treating ourselves nicely brings about. 🌠
For any message worthy enough to incorporate into our lives, we should treat it not as law, but as a nudge. An inspiration. A north star.
I quite appreciate your compassion for all the morally scrupulous, and this new lens that the money and work I’ve been able to put in may well amount to something, something more meaningful than I ever care to recognize. It’s a bit of a throwback to being called an “essential worker” during COVID, working extra hours and hating it, yet always having such nice things said to me by friends, family, and strangers to keep in mind through it all.
Who would’ve thought that after discovering how to do way more for good causes than we thought possible, many of us would be more worried about not doing enough? I’m indeed not doing enough, because nobody is. If there was someone doing enough, factory farms wouldn’t exist, neither would diseases, nor any other suffering in the world, preventable or otherwise; just one instance of it is plenty horrible on it’s own.
The problems are bigger than we can comprehend, but so is the progress just a little care makes on solving them, let alone what sustained charitable action by treating ourselves nicely brings about. 🌠