Ganesh Venugopal @ Subject6051 @lemmy.ml

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We have a newspaper (Real Change)

of all things you say, that's the most surprising. Local news papers are becoming a thing of the past for some reason. Next time maybe buy that newspaper, I mean, Local news papers, the remaining ones, are on life support.

Easing someone’s misery for an hour IS EASING SOMEONE’S MISERY

You are right! I must not think like that.

Outlive your enemies is as simple as that. You will encounter many villainous people who may or may not have influence over your life at some point, the intention of the quoted saying is that you “win” over those dickheads by living as good a life as you can.

Thank you! A life well-lived is the best revenge! haha... I like that!

Thank you very much for the explanation :) It helped!

Thank you very much for that beautiful poem! starred it!

People here set up donation boxes, swap shops, create food banks, organize markets, create safe spaces for minority groups, community gardens … mostly volunteering time

In India, we chain the jugs we use in toilets of rails and I have seen banks tie their pens to walls, so, we can't have nice things when we're so goddamn poor and have 0 civic sense or a bad culture :(

But it sounds pretty nice! I have heard of Swiss honest boxes where people self-checkout and pay for the items they are taking away from the shelves, there are no cameras, there is no one keeping watch, but the whole system depends on trust! When I told my rich well-to-do Indian friend about this and how it would never work over here, she said "yeah, I would just take away stuff and not pay for it" (kinda made my blood boil, this is why we can't have nice things lol)

PS: Thank you very much for your well-wishes! Means a lot! :)

I generally don’t give to individuals, hoping our donations, aggregated with others, will reach more people in need.

I think that's a good rule, but it's not for everyone, i.e., People actually would like to see their money do good, (it's easier to see a thankful smile on someone than get a digital message on a website) and let's not forget, people would have to do their own research before donating, because let's be honest, there so many scammy non-profits made to make money for their corporate overlords (not to mention the conversion rate), if a non-profit is separately pooling money for administration expenses, I would be more likely to trust them. Also, rest of the comment is pretty nice, thanks for the comment!

It adds up. Especially if you are in a populated city.

I am not saying most homeless people dupe you into giving them money which they later use for exotic stuff, but many do. I really am not blaming them, maybe drugs are the only relief they have in their lives, I don't know, but I can't refute the argument that that money would do more damage than good.

I only believe in DTA, Don’t trust Anybody.

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My life is enough suffering for me.

I would probably able to sympathize more than an average Joe to that.

AMEN!

but if you truly have nothing to give, then you have nothing to give without impacting your own existance.

But I say to myself, if I ever give a little, it's not gonna have much material impact on their life. i.e., I am not easing their misery for more than an hour! Also, there are many of them, how will I choose whom to give and whom not to? edit: But it's gonna take away stuff from me, I don't spend a rupee when I don't have to.

Is give when you feel like it and when you can (I think you would say yes to this) a good idea?

Why this comment didn't get more upvotes is a mystery to me, can you please share more?

If you are comfortable with it, tell us what kind of work you are involved in and if you are not, please talk more about what else you learned.

i.e., If you didn't find any “to my family, I am sorry but I was not productive every day and I wasted lots of time”, what did you find?

Also, any learnings you have had from those? God, I would read if you wrote a post about it! So, please do speak!

And spite. Never let go of the spite that makes you outlive the assholes

Please explain that a lil more.

FWIW you mold your life with a “goal” in mind, and along the way improvise when shit comes at you.

You see, I had this goal for which I was ready to sacrifice a lot, but turns out I would almost certainly fail if I pursue it and even if I achieve that goal, it ain't paying my bills! A lose-lose! After I realized that I gave up on it and along with it everything I knew about myself.

I don't know what I am doing atm, I am just wandering around thinking, if I know enough maybe I will get to know what will make me happy and then I can pursue it. i.e., No use sitting at home thinking about it and having an existential crisis.

I don't hold any answers but if you're reading this comment, I want to know how you take into consideration that if they are asking for money, that money can easily be used for drugs/opioids/other stuff which will hurt them.

i.e., Do you give them money or do you give them food, a bottle of water or stuff like that?

I understand, thanks for differentiating between the ugly stuff (drugs, wanking off...) and the stuff we need.

PS: I am talking mainly about getting rid of Phone addiction, netflix addiction and stuff like that, so these are net negatives if you overdo it and if you can't control yourself, which I can't do most times, they become really addictive.

That's pretty good!

Today I learned...

Damn! I will read them when I am really happy about something

Thank you for this comment and thanks for mentioning sources for further reading.

I guess this comment makes more sense now, you are right, it's probably not useful to read these messages. But, a counterpoint could be people who are in a really bad situation and are in that space make bad decisions.

i.e., It depends very much on how the person perceives the situation. I have heard of 16-year-olds offing themselves because of something really stupid, so maybe if we read suicide notes which are so obviously wrong in their approach, maybe that will help people realize that even though you think there is no way, there probably is one.

Also, I am not sure how often this is true. I don't want to shit on people who have offed themselves by suggesting there were all dumb or something, I am pretty sure they had legit reasons most of the times. idk!

Productivity is completely unrelated to success IMO.

I am sorry, but I feel like we're getting stuck on words here. You know what I mean by success, don't you?

At least for me it does, I have not achieved certain things I wanted because of lack of self-discipline and then lack of productivity. So it's real to me. But if one accepts the puddle they are in (not judging), maybe then productivity won't matter. i.e., You have to become a Jain or something (again, not judging, they probably will stay happier than me). edit: Your second point explains more, but productivity will make me happy, I know it. So, this discussion is rendered moot for me.

even though i might

This is embarrassing, I hate it when people don't capitalize their 'i's :')