That’s how it always is.
“I think if you look at the history of completely overthrowing systems, that often doesn’t work great.”
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“The Utopian crowd is all like, ‘Oh, these are problems that will naturally fix themselves.’ No. These are problems that will fix themselves because [anonymous] is working in health care. These are problems that get addressed because millions of people are coming together to make frustrating, incremental, little-by-little change over decades and over centuries.”
John Green, in Dear Hank And John #359
Choose carefully the problems you want to tackle and address in a meaningful way. The work you do will take long effort, and will require you to be tireless in continuing to advocate for it.
It’ll take forever, and you can never quit.
There was a time when I wanted to address every problem; now I know that I can’t and I can’t sustain myself while trying to do all of those. So I pick carefully the problems I want to spend time on, and I commit to long-term service of that effort. Other problems, I might have opinions or even ideas for solutions, but I will pass them on. They’re not my problems to fight. At least not for the next decade.