feeling so much despair at the suffering in the world

[wildflowers1996]

I know I could just stop reading the news and that bearing witness (without this leading to action) doesn't help

but if I stop reading about it, stop thinking about it, it doesn't make it actually go away :(

I wish I could motivate myself to take action and I don't know why I can't seem to do that

Surely doing something to alleviate suffering is better than nothing but I'm just so depressed I can't seem to function; I don't know if that is an excuse or not

(possible tw, discussing upsetting things happening in the world)



























I keep thinking about the children in Gaza having limbs amputated with no anesthesia, who have no family left, no one to comfort them
I keep thinking about cows who love their babies and have them taken away from them and killed and the mothers pining for them
about all the boy baby chicks who are grinded up after being born because they're not "needed"
the torture animals are put through and their fate in the slaughterhouse where they may go through so much pain before dying
cat torture rings
and a million other horrible things and I just can't bear it

 

[FuneralCry]

By not deciding to procreate one is preventing suffering there, it's horrifying to me how humans actually choose to force life into this evil world where there is endless potential for torment and cruelty. The fact that life even exists at all is the most horrific tragedy to me, it's beyond tragic how existing beings have suffered so unnecessarily to extreme amounts all through no fault of their own, existence truly is an abomination. More than anything I wish I stayed permanently unaware, I wish I never existed more than anything.

 

[wildflowers1996]

By not deciding to procreate one is preventing suffering there, it's horrifying to me how humans actually choose to force life into this evil world where there is endless potential for torment and cruelty. The fact that life even exists at all is the most horrific tragedy to me, it's beyond tragic how existing beings have suffered so unnecessarily to extreme amounts all through no fault of their own, existence truly is an abomination. More than anything I wish I stayed permanently unaware, I wish I never existed more than anything.

I don't have children but I feel incredibly guilty about having bought pets in the past
I have had rescue pets but as a child I went to the pet shop and bought hamsters, a guinea pig and a rabbit
I was a child but what I really am angry at myself for is buying a cat from a breeder about 6 years ago when I should have known better, and a hamster not long before that
I am so angry at myself for not going to a rescue

because by buying animals I'm contributing to demand for more animals to be bred and denying an animal in a shelter a home

I feel awful for not going vegan sooner; I was always vegetarian but I don't know why it took me so long to go vegan; by buying animal products I was contributing to demand for farm animals to be bred and hurt and killed