You know sometimes you just feel this really specific ache, and it’s kinda silly because it’s not YOUR problem but you still feel it, like when you see those news segments about the old fisherman whose house is practically in the ocean now and he’s watched the waves just take more and more of his land every single year, and you know he’s going to lose it all and his whole community will be gone soon and it’s just this terrible sad thing that happens, and you’re like here I am worrying about if Brenda from next door saw my car parked too close to the curb or if I missed a spot vacuuming the stairs and it feels so…small, but that feeling for the fisherman, it just HITS sometimes, and you’re not even sure why you’re feeling it but it’s there, this almost physical pressure in your chest and you just think, wow, that’s just how it is for some people, and it’s going to keep happening, and you can’t do anything about it.

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