Extreme weather drives surge in Pakistan child marriages

The universe doesn't care, so we have to. If you want humanity to be something that's worthy of existing, then it's not optional.

Fine, you don't have the stamina to care about this because you can't personally do something about it. That's ok.

But care about something. Care about not running the water while brushing your teeth for no reason, or about repairing some things you'd normally throw away. Care about being good company for the people you know. Care about doing things better when you spot an opportunity for improvement. Care about not making the lives of your colleagues harder if you can help it. Care about answering the questions of a child with mindfulness and consideration.

You don't have to care about everything. Everything matters, everything needs improving, but no-one can fix everything so that it's perfect.

But improve something. Take pleasure in doing it. Not everyone will do the same, but you'll be one more among millions making the world a little better, instead of worse.

I think I know what you mean. It's like the Internet has allowed us to share how fucked up each and every corner of the world is and it aggregates the worst of it and puts it on full display. So now I can't really feel anything when I see headlines as awful as this, I just turn into an unfeeling psychopath. Luckily my moral brain and my feeling brain are different, and the moral brain still wants to do something about this injustice, however I can.