i feel like a bad person that has done something wrong
i also have a lot of hatred in my heart, there is so much wrong with this world and i feel like i am on my own to end it, i feel like i am the last person in the world that can do anything about it and its like there is no hope, i cant take all of that on myself, i need help and there is no help there, nobody wants to know, i also feel like the world around me is changing and i dont like it, i worry about how things will become, i think i am a relic of a bygone age, everything is dead or dying and i live in the age of misery and death too many people die these days
Worrying about the world will only left you frustrated. No point in that because you are simply powerless in a grand constellation of things. Make your own world a nice place to live instead.
I get down on life and stuff like this all the time…
Life… how people live… IS changing fast. It’s hard to keep up.
The news loves… LOVES to constantly loop what is going wrong with the world… it’s like the media is plagued by catastrophic thinking as well.
They make it seem like one little change, one small group of people move, one actor rants on the media… and life as we know it is going to be OVER.
But it’s not going to be over… there are a lot of people on a very basic… “in your back yard” level who are working to do some very good things. I get trapped in this too… because the bleak and the bad is pushed in our face all the time.
But it’s NOT all bleak and bad… the media can cause some serious depression. I have to take a break from reading the papers sometimes because it really drags me down.
You talk about volunteering… seek out some of the organizations doing something right…
That helped me start to see that it’s all going to be OK.
Might be useful to look into the concepts of “learned helplessness” and “scripts.” The get into the psychotherapies that can pull one’s mind out of them.
I deal with that constantly. I started making myself feel better by doing volunteer work. I now foster puppies and kittens and I know that for them, I have changed the world for the better. Even the little things can help you feel better if you let them. Help an older person carry groceries to their third floor apartment , or go to an animal shelter and take a few dogs for walks, those two examples are what I cal Two-fers, not only are you helping someone, but you are getting exorcise too! And they have proven that physical activity helps promote happy feelings by making your body release those magical chemicals that I can not hope to spell…
too many people die these days