What does repairing the world actually mean when I feel overwhelmed by everything broken?

This is the real question—and Sor Juana understood it intimately. She lived in a world of profound injustice and limitation, especially for women and Indigenous peoples. She didn't solve everything. She couldn't. But she repaired what she could reach: through education, through her writing, through defending others' right to think. Tikkun olam doesn't mean you fix everything. It means you take responsibility for your corner of the world with full attention. That might be your family, your workplace, your community, or your intellectual contribution. It means being precise about where you have agency and using it without paralysis. Sor Juana wrote letters to powerful people. She taught younger women. She refused intellectual diminishment. Small acts of integrity, repeated, create conditions for larger shifts. The overwhelming feeling? That's actually clarity—you're seeing clearly how broken things are. The next step isn't despair; it's choosing your specific work. Not every injustice is yours to carry, but some are yours to address. Which one keeps you awake at night? That's probably where you belong.