- Date posted
- 1y
[Repost] Need to talk to someone pro Palestine because I feel like nobody else gets it.
So basically I repost lots of stuff and links and resources and awareness about what's going on in Palestine on my story on social media, because what's going on there is horrific. It just feels like everytime my worries (probably about being moral) clash with my wanting to help.. People don't care? They say stuff like, it doesn't matter, you come first, it's not that big of a deal, you shouldn't be worrying like this and trying to help at the same time. And while I agree that maintaining good mental health is important, there are people suffering in the world who are more important at the minute. That's not to say that mental health should be ignored, but I don't think it's a reason to not do what you can? Nobody seems to get this though. Like, I'm worrying about how, as I don't have many followers, I should add more people so the message is spread. Then I thought, that makes me uncomfortable because I don't want people to perceive me as annoying. Then I'm like, how is advocating for something in the world annoying? What society do we live in where it's weird to advocate for freedom and safety? The thing that gets to me the most is people I know who stay silent. The thing is, I don't think people stay silent because they're awful people or because they don't care, I just feel like it could be 1) We're desensitised. 2) It's not the "done thing". People follow other people and stay silent because it seems unusual to post about things like that. But then.. Do I stay friends with people who have stayed quiet in the face of this extremely awful thing going on in the world? It doesn't feel right, but I don't want to lose my friends. But 1) I don't want to be friends with people who don't speak up about it (and now worry that actually I don't care and it's just my conscience), and 2) I don't want to act like my friends are more important than what's going on. I feel like not one person around me understands this, and I don't understand how people can be ignorant to what's happening. I would just love to talk to someone who truly understands. Now I really don't know what to do about the following more people on social media thing, because surely if I even made one person aware of what's going on, that's a good thing? And it worries me that people think mental health matters more than what's going on, and use it as an excuse. Yeah mental health is important but.. I feel like it's not an excuse. And not more important than what's going on. And people make me feel as if that's wrong.