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#to avoid considering if or confronting how you're complicit
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you owe it to the people you love to take care of them, even if you aren't at your best
#mine#like i am not a capitalist and that's fundamental to understanding most any of my mentalities#so personally my thought tends to be 'what if we actually owe everyone everything we can provide all the time?'#but i get that that isn't attainable to most people#but what is more attainable is that we owe it to the people we love to help them#you can't watch someone suffer with the ability to alleviate that and do nothing yet still claim you love them#you cannot actively hurt someone#- through action or inaction -#with zero justification other than that the alternative isn't perfectly comfortable for you#and claim that you love them#if your solution to others suffering is to look away to make yourself feel more comfortable#to avoid considering if or confronting how you're complicit#then you don't love them#and you certainly don't care for them#think of all the people that have been there for you#whether you asked them to be or not#especially if you did not#why wouldn't you want to be that for someone else?#and if you haven't really had people there for you when you deathly needed them#whether you asked or not#especially if you did#why would you ever want to create a world where more of that exists?#and you'll never do it all perfeclty#you'll always find something more or else you could have done#but taking care of the people you love doesn't mean doing it perfectly#it means trying#it means showing up#it means being there and listening#and that's not something you can prolong#do it now
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