by Vanessa Di Grazia
It’s 2019, and the world is in better shape than ever. In the past 30 years the amount of people living in extreme poverty has been cut by a third, we experience far less violent conflict and modern medicine is helping us live longer and longer.
Improving the lives of seven billion people doesn’t just happen. This is a product of active change, from people who dedicate their lives to the collective good. People that are empathetic and egalitarian. People that actually give a fuck.
I hope to be one of these people - I’ve studied, travelled and volunteered myself into a position where I’ll be able to do my part. I also wish from the bottom of my heart that this wasn’t the case.
@beeillustrates
Giving a fuck is exhausting. Despite my earlier positivity, there are still endless issues that severely degrade the quality of life of people across the globe everyday. I started writing this post after a short 2 minute scroll through my newsfeed to read tragedy upon tragedy - Bangladeshi sweatshops, ableism, male depression and white supremacy. I clicked and read through every single article, and finished feeling pretty fucking shitty.
This is why I’m jealous of selfish people.
People that can scroll past, people that don’t care deeply for anything outside their own bubble of privilege. People that, as a friend once put it, believe that ‘it just doesn’t concern us’. [‘it’ being the fate of the 98% of the world that has a lower quality of life than a middle class Aussie, I suppose?]
It might be because they aren’t aware of how deep some of these issues run within our societies, or that their brains simply don’t make the humankind connection that others do. They’re not horrible people. However, they are intrinsically selfish people. And I’m extremely jealous of them.
@gorkiegork
My jealousy is pointless and I’m still committed to a life of probable low pay and high personal toll. I’ll try my best to take care of my self, indulge in the beauty of my personal life, and avoid feeling like the world rests on my shoulders.
If you also give a fuck - please remember to do this too. You can’t help anybody else if you don’t help yourself.
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