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Why helping others sometimes feels meaningless

I've been volunteering at the food bank for months thinking it would make me feel purposeful but mostly I just feel like I'm putting a band-aid on a system that's fundamentally broken.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual acts of compassion can feel insufficient when confronted with the scale of structural suffering.

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