• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I am not going to have any meaningful impact on this world, so why bother giving it my all? Just take every day as it comes because in the end it doesn’t matter.

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      4 days ago

      I think of this often as it relates to the larger globe as a whole. Like, let it go and just be. Very freeing.

      But I can have an impact on your world or their world. On an individual level we can have huge impact on each other. Something kind I say to a stranger may be the thing they carry with them through their next hard times. Just like all the things that I carry with me that the giver has no idea about.

      This works for good and bad, btw, so I focus on how I can give it my all to the people in my neighborhood and have faith that the ripple effect from that will radiate outwards and onwards. Keeps me going.