"that urgency and sense that each individual can have enormous rippling impacts was meant to be empowering, I can definitely see now that it was actually crippling for me and led to an eventual burnout that lasted for years. I put in tens of hours every week to leadership roles in a flounder…
"that urgency and sense that each individual can have enormous rippling impacts was meant to be empowering, I can definitely see now that it was actually crippling for me and led to an eventual burnout that lasted for years. I put in tens of hours every week to leadership roles in a floundering youth climate organisation, and each time we lost a campaign or a protest got a less-than-optimal turnout I was crushed by the feeling that I was failing in my responsibility to be the one person to fix everything."
This describes the past 5-10 years of my life and I am coming to the realisation that I have in so many ways crushed the enjoyment from my own life in my attempts to be a waste warrior, climate journalist, eco mum and all the rest of it. And I have no idea how to change, how or whether it is ethical to withdraw from any of this work, and what the future holds.
But I too am grateful for this space. Thanks for your comment.
I feel like you have written this for/about me!
"that urgency and sense that each individual can have enormous rippling impacts was meant to be empowering, I can definitely see now that it was actually crippling for me and led to an eventual burnout that lasted for years. I put in tens of hours every week to leadership roles in a floundering youth climate organisation, and each time we lost a campaign or a protest got a less-than-optimal turnout I was crushed by the feeling that I was failing in my responsibility to be the one person to fix everything."
This describes the past 5-10 years of my life and I am coming to the realisation that I have in so many ways crushed the enjoyment from my own life in my attempts to be a waste warrior, climate journalist, eco mum and all the rest of it. And I have no idea how to change, how or whether it is ethical to withdraw from any of this work, and what the future holds.
But I too am grateful for this space. Thanks for your comment.