Help. I feel so guilty and I cannot shake it.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

52. There's another way to look at it.

Everyone deserves a home and the means to meet their needs without worrying about where their next meal will come from, where they'll sleep tonight, whether they'll have enough money for medicine or a doctor visit when they're sick.
We all deserve that. You deserve it because you're part of 'we all'.

You are an empathic person. Naturally your thoughts go to those suffering in the midst of this pandemic. How can they not? We're all connected. The suffering of others impacts us on all sorts of levels. In the case of sensitive personalities, it is felt even more so.

But maybe, instead of thinking you don't deserve all the good that's in your life right now, what if you said, they don't deserve all the suffering in their lives. They don't deserve to lose their jobs. They don't deserve to be hungry. They don't deserve to work without PPEs while caring for sick people. The list goes on and on. They don't deserve what's happening to them. The losses on so many levels could have been avoided or at least lessened. They don't deserve that. No one does.

And remember, you could live in a shed with no electricity but it wouldn't lessen the suffering of those who are going through this. Feeling guilty is draining your energy and you're going to need it. We all are. We've got work to do. This administration has got to be out of the White House come next January.

And isn't that why we're here on DU? Isn't this going to increase our resolve to do everything we can to take back our government in November? Enough of this!

Every single person here right now is here for such a time as this. You are here now because life has put you here. Now, don't worry about what you should or shouldn't be doing. Life will let you know. In the mean time. The point is not whether you deserve good. The point is that our brothers and sisters don't deserve the bad. They don't deserve the bad. They don't deserve the bad.