Apathy: the Road to Ruins

With one more disaster hitting our reality every other day, it becomes difficult to care about things. Caring about the job is difficult as you can move or be fired at any moment. Caring about relationships become difficult because they never pan out as you expect. Caring about anything becomes pointless because it seems the world is going to ruins anyways.
 
So we take shelter in nihilism, we claim we do not care about anything. So we stop putting in the effort. We stop trying to convince people. We stop voicing opinions about what we think is right.
We become numb to all feelings in general. And tend to sleep more, drown in meaningless scrolling the newsfeed and and swiping through entertainment more.

It can be a shelter, true, but only temporarily.

Before we know it, we are confronted by problems of such magnitudes that nihilism simply cannot overcome. Problems that need you to get up and move. You lose your job, you have to look for another one. Your loved one no longer responds to you, you have to work on it, stop blaming others and speak up if things are going to change in any positive direction. Your plumbing needs work, PC needs repairs, the batteries need to be changed, all small problems that add up to make every second a little more unbearable.

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But you can not longer take the smallest step to making one thing right, because you stopped caring a long time ago. Unless something gives you immediate pleasure, you can no longer make yourself do anything. And you go deeper into ruins. Unless you act on fixing the smallest issues.

Get up and go for a walk. Call someone and have a little chat.

Tell someone honestly what you expect from him or her. Instead of complaining inside your head. Fix the smallest issues in the house. 

Start caring.

And only then will you find the energy to tackle the challenges in life, and have the energy to find meaning in it.

Radi
2 August 2019
Dhaka