Do We Care When It Doesn’t Affect Us?
Do We Care When It Doesn’t Affect Us?
It is easy to care about a problem once it reaches our family, our neighborhood, or our own life. But what about when the suffering belongs to somebody else?
Today we’re talking about addiction, overdose, homelessness, mental health, poverty, and the larger question underneath all of it: do we care because something is wrong, or only when it gets close enough to affect us personally?
Recovery teaches us to get outside of ourselves. Maybe one of the real tests of that is whether somebody else’s suffering matters before it becomes our own.
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