There’s a kind of emotional fatigue no one warns you about. The kind that doesn’t come from your own life, but from carrying the weight of everyone else’s. News. Crisis. Updates. All the time.
You think awareness is the responsible thing. But eventually, something shifts. You stop reacting. Not because you don’t care, but because there’s nowhere left to put the caring.
I found a reflection that put that feeling into words. It doesn’t offer solutions. Just resonance.
Have you felt this kind of quiet saturation? When your empathy doesn’t disappear, it just stops fitting inside you?
Yes and no, i cam absolutely see how you get there though
I use triage to “cope”. Pare it away and for me the things that matter most are the enviorment and inequality.
Without the former nothing else matters becase there is no future possible with no liveable biosphere (anti car, anti growth, anti nation state, aethiest etc), without the latter, humanity doesn’t matter (some random person from Sudan is as important as my fellow “citizens”) , so i become interested in, read about, pay attention to and support those at the intersection of those two priorities
I long ago came to understand thats not how most people see the world bit that brings me some comfirt.