“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
how is this a shower thought? and if it is why is it in quotes? and if it isnt and its actually a quote from someone else then where's the name of the person that should follow the quote?
Doesn't feel like a shower thought, looks like we'll organised thought, like shower philosophy maybe. Because ripple effect part is just pure phylosophicla nonsense.
While its definitely true that you need to take care of yourself before you can help others, this sounds like some Ayn Rand shit (advocating individualism over collectivism). The proletariat need to recognize the bourgeois are a shared enemy and that organization is necessary to defeat inequality.
This will be a generalization, so it doesn’t apply to all cases, but for the most part, you are far worse at helping others if you’re unable to help yourself. If you’re unable to show others as an example of the fruits of their labor of change, it will be far more difficult to lead them to helping themselves.
The goal is not to hand people fish. It’s to teach them. If you just give someone your help without teaching them, they will only become reliant on that help.
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
Or, and hear me out- if you want to help people you can volunteer in your community which is understaffed and underfunded no matter where you are. (U.S and territories only, I’m sure that’s not the case in actual developed countries)
17 Comments
nocturne@piefed.social · 10 pts · 241d
Ripple down fixing?
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 2 pts · 240d
Fixin’omics?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 240d
Fix yourself up by your bootstrap.
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 240d
how is this a shower thought? and if it is why is it in quotes? and if it isnt and its actually a quote from someone else then where's the name of the person that should follow the quote?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 240d
Doesn't feel like a shower thought, looks like we'll organised thought, like shower philosophy maybe. Because ripple effect part is just pure phylosophicla nonsense.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 241d
I'll be sure to let my father know he doesn't need his doctors' help for his cancer, he can just fix himself!
aurelian@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 240d
Fixing yourself often involves letting others help you to fix yourself.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
While its definitely true that you need to take care of yourself before you can help others, this sounds like some Ayn Rand shit (advocating individualism over collectivism). The proletariat need to recognize the bourgeois are a shared enemy and that organization is necessary to defeat inequality.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 241d
This is an excuse to never help anyone but yourself
otacon239@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
This will be a generalization, so it doesn’t apply to all cases, but for the most part, you are far worse at helping others if you’re unable to help yourself. If you’re unable to show others as an example of the fruits of their labor of change, it will be far more difficult to lead them to helping themselves.
The goal is not to hand people fish. It’s to teach them. If you just give someone your help without teaching them, they will only become reliant on that help.
Today@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 241d
To put your own mask on first.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Those damn airline safety videos are so annoying.
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 240d
kevingoes@feddit.online · 1 pts · 240d
Michael Jackson
dxc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 241d
I've been trying for some 10+ years now fixing myself. It made everything worse.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 241d
DECEIVE YOURSELF
DECEIVE THE WORLD
EL. PSY. CONGROO.
Isolde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Or, and hear me out- if you want to help people you can volunteer in your community which is understaffed and underfunded no matter where you are. (U.S and territories only, I’m sure that’s not the case in actual developed countries)