How to find hope when everything is so bleak?
Ive always found myself to be a very insightful and empathetic person. I have recently just become so exhausted by the world and everything going on, its very hard to not feel hopeless.
It’s easy for people to tell me to just ignore it, but I find that to be difficult. Living in America, I genuinely care about my country and my peers. Climate change, wars, viruses, politics, data centers, AI have just been weighing on me heavily because I know there is nothing I can do. My vote doesn’t matter because no matter who is in office nothing will ever change. Politics aside, the world just seems hellbent on destroying itself and that doesn’t sit right with me. Every news story just goes 6 levels of bleak higher.
I guess my first thought is to just volunteer locally at a homeless shelter or animal shelter, but I feel like seeing how those people need genuine help and will never get it will make me feel worse.
My personal life is fine but not without issue. I work a fine job and have hobbies and friends, but maybe its my need for control that just makes it all feel pointless.
Anyone here deal with this? How do you change your perspective? I dont want to feel this way anymore