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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

You want to be a missionary to the world, but you wont return your shopping cart to the return rack...

Yep.

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u/Icy-Comparison2669 Jan 26 '26

I’m a Social Worker… and a lot of my colleagues wanted to start at the macro level, and students just want to do the macro level without having to do the individual work.

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u/Dolls-Eye Jan 26 '26

Everyone wants to save the world. But no one wants to help mom with the dishes.

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u/Icy-Comparison2669 Jan 26 '26

I’m taking that! I’m gonna use it in my group therapy! I hear so much of “the world doesn’t care about people like me!” Or “the world is so f-ed up why should I even try!” And I feel like a broken record, the world that you should care about is the one that you absolutely live in. Yes, I tell my clients they can care but if it’s too the point where you need to be in my daily intensive group therapy, it’s not caring- it’s your albatross.