Missing the point

I think I am sometimes. I wonder..

Time passes and I'm not sure I'm getting it. I'm not sure where to look. It's both incredibly inspiring and incredibly depressing to think of how much no one really knows about what's happening. I guess it makes sense - if we had a significant amount of mentorship in these times, we wouldn't be in these times.

Like a lot of people I encounter, it's difficult and frustrating to know exactly what to do, day-to-day. To be blunt, if one wants to have no further impact on the world, one needs only to end their life. And that's not an option for (I hope) most of us!

So, how do we strike this balance?

On one side: we need to aggressively change our individual and collective actions to save the world and to preserve human rights. We are running out of resources, we are massively polluting the world, we are increasing global temperatures with disastrous impacts, we're killing people in the Middle East for oil, we're letting people die in Africa for lack of oil and we're trying our damnedest to hide in a world of make-believe while all this happens.

On the other side: we need to remember what it means to be human. We need to make sure we're having fun (or what's the point?), we need to remember that we're all capable of poor judgement and we need to forgive each other and ourselves for the irresponsible things we've done. Compassion and understanding are not best when rushed.

How do we balance these things? How do we love and yet condemn? How do we make changes that will require sacrifices from all of us? How do we consider these human transgressions daily without hate, malice or depression?

What can we do? What more can I do than protest and tell everyone I know to be more aware? Am I lazy? Do I remain unsure and convince myself that I cannot do more because of fear?

Possibly..