How do you deal with helplessness

I drink a lot.

You have a few options. To ignore it. To become discouraged and blame it all on a system you can't change. To do all you can and accept that you have limitations and not get discouraged.

Granted we all get a little discouraged at times, but if you give up you've accepted failure.

 

Is there bliss in ignorance and the denial of what is? What does that make us if we do not even acknowledge the pain and suffering of others and the unjust treatment of those who we call fellow man. What then have we lost as far as our own humanity.

The frustration, anger we feel should be what makes us humans with a conscious and a desire to facilitate change. Change in those who harm others and a change in our acceptance of that as being something that we accept.

We should not accept it.

That any person should suffer is not acceptable.

Can we stop all from suffering, no, sadly.

For each that suffer without regret from all is a really sad reflection on us. If we can not immediately cause a change it does not mean that we should not continue to try to invoke one.

I do believe we are all obligated to clean our own backyards but that does not mean that globally we are not also responsible for cleaning the toxic that is everyones backyard.

If we do not feel compassion and wish for there to be change, then as a society we have lost what a society means.

I can not fix the whole world but I can do what I can to make it right and hope that the trickle will make a difference.

I am a trickle but if others are also a trickle, it can become a stream and that can cause change.

Since when did it become some how out there to care about others who we maybe can not directly reach, instead of a norm to care about those who need our care, compassion, action and support.

I do not deal well with apathy which is a long way from helpless. I feel helpless to help many but I do not feel apathy to their plight.

 

Humanity is all human things. Many aspects of humanity can not at large be considered humane.

Joy is also a human emotional state and there is no reason that we cannot accommodate change with grace. You cannot stop the tide from changing but you can change your mind about the meaning of what you see as you give the world all the meaning it has for you.

To affect change we do something in the present that is different from what we have done in the past. Like calls unto like. Unpleasant descriptions are attended by unpleasant emotions which call for unpleasant responses. What you resist, persists because persistence is an energy of participation. Energy feeding into energy developing a direction of flow or polarity.

Conflict is not the road to peace. If we are to fix what is broken we must first comprehend what it means to do no harm.

The combination of these premises makes life unacceptable.
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It is hard to comprehend the powerful effects of our thinking to influence the way we perceive the world. Do you invoke healing or condemnation. Criminals exist because we feel criminal behavior must be punished. No one wants to be punished so this makes the phenomena hard to apprehend because it goes underground. The criminal is looking to have their needs met as they perceive them. From a criminals perspective, the good guy is not a representative of goodness.

We may cultivate goodness to every extent that we combat evil and have a more consistent result because we may loose as many battles as we win if we are left to contend with each other.

All expressions of love are maximal, representing the maximum amount of good will that is being called upon at the time. High fidelity produces the most audible and consistent resonances.

Hate and love are not the same. To hate one is not to love another more, just as to love one is not to love another less.

A cloudy day does not blot out the sun, it only makes it seem obscure.
Yes you are a trickle, but that trickle may of itself make it's way around the world, like the way you smiled on a stranger in an elevator.

When I use the word vain in this instance, I mean producing no result, or not producing the result you desire. This news story as it comes to us is the result of leisure adventure. We certainly would not feel helpless in the face of this information if we were otherwise gainfully applying ourselves.

 

To remain at once warlike and openly loving is hard, but the best thing I can do in the face of helplessness.

 

I alternate between periods of hyperawareness and completely turning my back on the world. When I'm hyperaware of the world and all its problems I feel both a deep sadness and extreme anger. When I can't stand that anymore, because it has led to strong and long-lasting feelings of depression in the past, I focus on my immediate surroundings and try to decorate my corner of the world.

The world can be an ugly place. Humans have the capacity to be vicious, self-serving, greedy, illogical.

This is what I see when I'm aware of the world. When I am only aware of my immediate surroundings, I see that humans are generous, giving, beautiful, gentle.

I am lucky because I'm surrounded by beauty. I've never personally known evil. This inevitably makes my sadness worse when I do turn my attention to the world and realize there are so many souls out there that are not as lucky as I.

I'm rambling, mainly because I have no answer. I do not know how to deal with the helplessness. I live half my life in sadness and a slow, burning anger. The other half I live in ignorance in order to retain my sanity.

I think all humans are a double-sided coin. We all have the capacity for great good or evil. I think the best thing each of us can do as individuals is to nurture the goodness in life, to water it and watch it grow in yourself and those around you.

 

i do the exact same thing. i'll go for weeks or months where i spend hours every day devouring news and reading up on every issue and injustice that i hear about, just to be informed... but then i kind of hit a wall and just have to stop before i go crazy. i have trouble finding that happy medium.

 

A fierce commitment to be openly loving.

 

I can relate to this. I used to be the biggest angry sign-waving hippie, but after roughly ten years of having pretty much no power, no say, no money, etc aside from signing internet petitions, I've had to mellow out... just for my own sake... It's sad how much I've sold out in the interest of not losing my fucking marbles. I refuse to stop watching the news, though. It drives my fiance crazy. He is a steadfast believer in burying your head in the sand and worrying about your own business. I direct him to the story of the Terrible Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2xH2187-Ts"]Terrible Things by Eve Bunting - YouTube