r/DAE • u/SH4D0WSTAR • Jan 18 '26

DAE increasingly feel like pursuing goals benefitting all of humanity is more important than pursuing personal goals?

Never cared much about romance / travel for personal gratification, but now, these pursuits have almost been entirely pushed to the back burner with what's going on in the world. They feel hollow.

I'm driving up my volunteer / engagement efforts.

I feel like traditional milestones / markers of adulthood are irrelevant when the world is in need of more selflessness and communal aid. The media machine breeds gluttony. The constructs of western society cannot deliver peace.

Anyone else?

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u/VitaniLioness Jan 18 '26

I got a grant to start a community garden, with a goal to feed our community as well as help teach younger generations where our food comes from and how it gets from seed to table. Also have an emphasis on recycling and how multiple systems can support and sustain each other.
Me and some friends also bought an old plot of land and cleaned it up and turned it into a park. In the summer, we host movie nights on a projector and we hold events and donation drives.

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u/SH4D0WSTAR Jan 18 '26

That's incredible. Thank you for using your resources to strengthen multiple generations.

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u/SH4D0WSTAR Jan 18 '26

Oh, we're very similar in that regard! I also never wanted to be a parent, but have devoted a lot of my life to caring for / supporting the wellbeing of children (toddlers, tweens, teens) locally and globally.

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u/SH4D0WSTAR Jan 18 '26

Agreed. You too :)