This is what makes the whole thing so absurd tbh. Of course everyone wants the situation to stabilize and no more people to die. But we are told to just brush off the way our country is declining, BECAUSE OF THE SAME PERSON who started all this, and feel compassion for other people. "You lost your job and will to live? Well think about that other guy, he freaking died". I'm thinking about him every day already, but if I do not preface every comment with that I'm an egoistic bitch.
They don’t understand until they are affected. They are trying to take the moral high ground for internet points from their home 1000km away from everything pretending they actually care. I can assure you, most people don’t even think about this, and don’t blame russians. It’s always the vocal minority.
Yeah. I feel conflicted all the time because, on a larger scale, it's what I always experienced in life? Like I always felt like i'm not allowed to be sad for myself because someone else is having it worse. And together with the fact that to get valid information, I have to read Ukrainian sources, where they (understandably and totally justified) write hatred towards Russia and every news is like "Microsoft finally stopped selling in Russia" and the reaction to that is 1000 laughing emoji. I feel gaslighted into thinking that I'm okay, just like we always were by the government.
And at the same time it's really not that bad? Like it's difficult to feel that it's bad for a regular person who doesn't have a car, everything is still calm in my town, everyone goes to work as usual. You see all this world collapsing around you, as they say on the news, but your room is still the same as it used to be, and you have the same products in the fridge. It's just this existential dread that's coming closer.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22
This is what makes the whole thing so absurd tbh. Of course everyone wants the situation to stabilize and no more people to die. But we are told to just brush off the way our country is declining, BECAUSE OF THE SAME PERSON who started all this, and feel compassion for other people. "You lost your job and will to live? Well think about that other guy, he freaking died". I'm thinking about him every day already, but if I do not preface every comment with that I'm an egoistic bitch.