Disempowerment
Lately I've become quite disempowered. I used to have a zest for fighting against injustice and trying to make the world a better place. But with everything that 2020 has brought, the chaos, the injustices, the suffering, I have just felt disempowered. It just seems that greedy, inept people fall upwards whilst everyone else suffers. Add into that the fact that under lockdown my responsibilities have gone up exponentially. I am trying to work, homeschool my kids, maintain my health, look out for my community, keep up with other people's expectations of me that I have no time for thinking, no time for me. (After this experience I will never complain about being short on time ever again!) Issues which I read about I know that I should feel compassion for, and normally I would, but right now, under lockdown, I look inside and I have nothing left to give. I have had to turn down extra hours at work which I have waited over a year for because I am struggling to do th