Life Advice: It is better to put efforts into fixing yourself than to put effort into understanding and fixing the world

There are thousands of organizations out there with hundreds of thousands of people if not millions all getting paid to fix the worlds problems.

They couldn't do it all so far.

Yet here you are by your lonesome, thinking that you would solve the world's problems or gain some special knowledge all by yourself that millions of others with far more years of experience could not.

That's hubris.

There is nothing wrong with knowing a bit more about the world. To put in effort into being aware of what's going on.

It's not worth it to do so at the cost of yourself and your own growth.

The first question that should always be on your lips before you help anybody else or try to focus on any other part of the world should be," Are things going well enough for me right now?"

If you have an important problem right now. Focus on fixing that first.

If you have a big limitation. Focus on fixing that first.

The world still exists outside of that and after you are done taking care of your things.

Make peace with yourself, then save the world and the people around you.

Even in the airplane flight safety videos, they tell you to put your oxygen mask on first before helping anybody else.

You can't save anybody else if you haven't even given yourself the space to breathe and hold on to your senses.

So save yourself, and take care of yourself, and then go save the world, and take care of your loved ones, for when you are healthy in body and mind, you can safely give far more of yourself to family than you ever could half sick.

( Disclaimer : All this advice is more general life rather than how to handle life at emergency situations which need you to do things right then and there. For that look for advice elsewhere or good luck trying to make the advice here fit those scenarios. )