If you're feeling like the world is falling apart around you and that there's nothing that you can do to make things better...
Volunteer.
Find a food bank, a shelter, a hospice, a senior center. Find some place where you can lend your time towards the service of others.
Volunteering is a great way to do something worthwhile for your community. It takes us out of our own troubles, and focuses that energy on helping others.
So go volunteer. Help yourself by helping others.
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@Mrfunkedude I was a volunteer driver for meals on wheels for 15 years and I was hooked on the gratitude. People would say to me how nice I was but I assure you it was very selfish. Some people think it’s sad to see the people but it was very beautiful really. And they don’t want to just talk to you, they truly want the nutrition and are so grateful.
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@Mrfunkedude I enjoy trail restoration and planting native trees. I think it’s important to do volunteer work that one enjoys doing.
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@Mrfunkedude I hear this a lot and I generally believe it's true. That said, I was raised in a cult where I was voluntold to give thousands of hours of “service” that was mostly to benefit the organization and to keep us busy so we wouldn't question. To refuse was to be shunned and shamed.
To this day, I've been largely unable to even think about volunteerism without a surge of anxiety and repulsion. Maybe I'll get around it someday.
To the sincere volunteers, you have my respect.
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@eighthourlunch Traumata machen in einem sehr viel kaputt und das kuriose daran ist, obwohl man selbst nichts für sein Verhalten kann, hat man ein schlechtes Gewissen. Ich wünsche Dir viel Kraft wieder in ein Leben zurück zu kehren, in dem Du keine Last der Schuld für andere tragen musst.
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@Mrfunkedude Enthusiastic +1 to this, but there are even more volunteer opportunities still. I was a tutor in an after school enrichment program and I taught coding to 10th and 11th graders and it was a profound and amazing experience.
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@Mrfunkedude thx for this, I will find my cause.
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@Mrfunkedude thank you
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@Mrfunkedude
P.J. O'Rourke: "Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."
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@Mrfunkedude Or vote for higher taxes on the rich so that sort of service no longer needs to be covered by volunteer charity.
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@Mrfunkedude With #KingTrump even just getting to know your neighbors is more important then ever, especially #homeless people. We will be rounded up and put in concentration camps too.
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@Mrfunkedude Eine Arbeit für Menschen, denen es schlechter geht als einem selbst, sollte selbstverständlich sein. Leider sehen immer weniger Menschen auf andere. Ich hab keinen Gott und dennoch einen Glauben. Hab einfach nur ein gutes Herz, lautet er.
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