Too Overwhelmed to Care Anymore

You can’t carry the world if you can’t heal yourself

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It is a rare person these days who hasn’t sat alone, staring at a glass of wine, mumbling it is all just too much, too painful, just too hard to care about so much pain, suffering and frustration. I care, I really do, you say to yourself, but I just don’t have anything left to give anyone anymore. I can barely take care of myself these days, how can I carry the problems of the world too?

Every generation is hurt these days. If you are under thirty, even finding a decent job, to pay for a basic place to live, can be mind numbing. Rents rise by the week it seems. The cost of just being alive goes up by the day. And the debt… the debt that won’t let you breathe and drains every ounce of creativity from your life.

But most pay for the jobs you chase hasn’t really changed much in the last five years. Hard to plan a life when you don’t know how you will pay the rent next month without adding a second job or a third side hustle.

Add a kid or two, reach your mid 30s, and the pressure mounts, You need more of everything just to manage your life…. more time, more money, more freedom and often more help. You want a different life from your parents, yet the safety of steady money and a place to live that is yours changes your perspective…