It s all too much to cope with. International charity workers are probably the best placed to know what kinds of structural changes need to take place but they are expressly forbidden to meddle in politics . No wonder people hesitate and despair. Still not catchy, but they do pinpoint the problem. It s not feeling compassionate that you get tired from, it s feeling helpless.
People don t like that.
And depression is more fatiguing than anything else. Metaphors are wonderfully literal. Oh, please, paradoxes before breakfast are too much. So I am left to work out a response to these global tragedies by myself - and then hopelessness and depression drain off my creative energies before I ve begun to think. It would help if you didn t try for some global panacea, but you could figure out some useful small-scale responses.