How to deal with world-weariness?
I don’t know the exact english word for it, but I always used to struggle with extreme empathy. As a 10 year old kid I cried because of climate change, when I realized that the food chicken is the same as the animal i stopped eating meat and when I had my first encounter with the concept racism I couldn’t comprehend why people would ever think to do that. I‘m in my mid twenties now and I‘m regularly crying about stuff I can’t change or even influences me. I‘m a cis woman but each time I see a post of an adult trans person talking about their journey I start crying. When I see posts related to dogs being able to walk again thanks to teeny tiny wheelchairs I start crying. I went into education again after getting diagnosed and I‘m doing an apprenticeship and the school I go to almost has no foreign students. My class is incredibly racist and even though I‘m not targeted by the racism it hurts deeply. I try to open my mouth and speak up when they make racist remarks but I‘m really scared of confrontation. I only speak up in smaller groups. I keep thinking about how a guy said something horrible about jews and the holocaust and I‘m laying in bed crying. I don’t know a single jewish person. I cant comprehend how evil people can be. How do I deal with this? I‘ll continue to open my mouth but how do I stop crying about it?