The Will to Care
Jun. 11th, 2010 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuvielWhen I was younger, I had many causes, mainly having to do with animals. I was a paying member of the ASPCA, PETA, and WWF, among others. I had adopted a humpback whale name Nile. Lots of my money went to trying to make the world a better place for all living things. I agonised over situations like the Exxon oil spill. To this day I won't buy Exxon gas.
But, as I've gotten older, my passions and zeal have slowly petered out. I can't afford to support the groups that keep asking for my help and I have turned against PETA for their extreme outlook and outrageous behaviour. I've just become a curmudgeon really. I figure people aren't gonna change so the Earth will do what she has to, to get rid of us. Fine by me. It doesn't matter what I do or how much money I give out, people are going to be assholes and fuck everything up. I may not be actively trying to waylay the stupidity, but at least I'm not adding to it.
I'm just tired of it all, really. This recent oil disaster just got me to thinking about the whole thing. Maybe if Todd were closer, we would bitch together and try to figure out what we could do to help. But he's not. We barely talk, if at all. So that outlet is gone. There's no one but Aunt Tudi to talk about this disaster and I don't want to stress Aunt Tudi about it. I still care about the atrocities we visit upon this planet, but I seriously believe that the planet will eventually make it to where our kind will be unable to subsist. I may not picket, or write letters anymore, but I am still secretly rooting for Mother Earth and the day She says ENOUGH.
That's the extent of my caring these days.
But, as I've gotten older, my passions and zeal have slowly petered out. I can't afford to support the groups that keep asking for my help and I have turned against PETA for their extreme outlook and outrageous behaviour. I've just become a curmudgeon really. I figure people aren't gonna change so the Earth will do what she has to, to get rid of us. Fine by me. It doesn't matter what I do or how much money I give out, people are going to be assholes and fuck everything up. I may not be actively trying to waylay the stupidity, but at least I'm not adding to it.
I'm just tired of it all, really. This recent oil disaster just got me to thinking about the whole thing. Maybe if Todd were closer, we would bitch together and try to figure out what we could do to help. But he's not. We barely talk, if at all. So that outlet is gone. There's no one but Aunt Tudi to talk about this disaster and I don't want to stress Aunt Tudi about it. I still care about the atrocities we visit upon this planet, but I seriously believe that the planet will eventually make it to where our kind will be unable to subsist. I may not picket, or write letters anymore, but I am still secretly rooting for Mother Earth and the day She says ENOUGH.
That's the extent of my caring these days.
