Dear SeekingSolace:

My advice:

1. Keep making the world a better place. Once in a while evaluate and re-evaluate if your ways are indeed  making the world a better  place, change what needs  to be changed, and  proceed.

2. Regarding the example you gave: “I used to enjoy curling up in bed on a cold and rainy day- as of  late, I immediately think of people who do not have  beds to curl up in and are stuck outside”- my suggestion may seem strange at  first,  but consider  it regardless, if you will:

As you  are curled up in bed on a cold and rainy day, think of the  people who don’t have beds and are curled  up in  a tent  perhaps, or under blankets in a  cardboard  box, but think also of the people curled  up in bed in a mansion, warm and cozy, clean and expensive, yet they are  troubled, their minds racing with  anxious thoughts, hour after hour into the night. Some of those are the  celebrities we heard about, those  who chose  no-life over the life they  had. Do you feel empathy for their suffering?

What about  the suffering of  a man in a  cozy bed, not in a  mansion, not so rich and not so poor, yet suffering.. is that you?

anita