Dude, I'm so there with ya! I find myself feeling guilty for having a good day while I watch others struggle; then get angry at some around me who make a federal case out of the most minute of inconveniences. It's like, "Oh my God! I'm in a panic! Don't know what to do! Should I make chicken tonight or spaghetti??????" I mean, really? I don't know.

Personally, I've always found the perspective of being empty as a starting point helpful. Meaning, see myself as having nothing and being thankful for everything that is added to that rather than wanting so damned much and whining about what I don't have. Damn, I hope that didn't come out wrong. Didn't mean any disrespect, to anyone.

I don't know, I just get irritated when I hear someone freak out cause someone took the last bag of chips while another person say, just got their legs blown off in a warzone or something. And maybe the thing that upsets me the most is that, I do the same damned thing all the time! Okay this is turning into a ramble.

But yeah, I hear ya on feeling helpless. So much you want to do but so little of any real consequence; or so it seems. But who knows? Sometimes it's the little things that mean so much, you know? Just being there as an ear or a shoulder can be everything sometimes. Anyway...

~ John

Well, if you can do nothing about others and you happen to be ok in your life, is it a reason to feel bad? I mean, that way every human being should suffer, cause constandly so many people are unhappy or with huge problems around us. I think that the great thing in human soul is when it is happy and instead of not giving a damn about others (common), or being brought down of other ppl trouble, it can give the excess of it's happiness to some in need. Use your hapiness for you or for others, don't regret for having it!

Have a nice day!