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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I appreciate the pep talk. I’m an engineer in water resources and do my best to help where I can. Sometimes I have outbursts on the Internet and sometimes I fall into frighteningly deep depression. I removed my ability to have children in my terror of bringing life into a the world so dark. So it’s not one or the other -be angry and do nothing or have hope and work towards a better future. I’m very angry and very frightened and very jaded… And I’m doing what I can to hopefully prove myself wrong. I would very much like to be wrong. I don’t have much hope most days and do believe the planet would be much better off of humans were at least much reduced in number. But I have loved ones and empathy for strangers, as well as a sense of self preservation so I don’t relish the thought of suffering. Things can be more than one thing at the same time. I’m not sure how to develop hope, and I’m not sure how people like yourself still carry any, but I have the kind of steadfast resolve to help my fellow humans reduce their suffering at the end. There’s a great deal of good that humans can do as well, art, music, stories, love. Those are the threads that keep me bobbing close to the surface. But yeah, I avoid the news almost entirely except for a few trusted sources and what I can’t help but run across on Lemmy, etc. I’m too sensitive clearly



  • Indeed. I’m often overwhelmed by my feelings of fear and anger. Reading this gave me such a sense of futility, like wow I must be destined to die a slow and painful death of cancer, if poverty or civil uprising doesn’t get me first. Discussion seems silly at this point. Capitalism has sealed our fate, there’s little we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones in this environment. Everyone should be just as angry. To not be this angry one must be dissociating… Which is what I’ll go back to now until the next article wakes up my fear and anger again.