Often what some media and pundits depict as a lack of kindness is actually a feeling of hopelessness, "what can I do?" I can toss a few coins into a busker's or homeless person's tin, but giving a few meagre coins to modern charities is most likely a subscription these days, often starting at monthly payments that are more than I can afford. It makes me feel disempowered.

I'm secure, with a secure pension fund, but can only give what I can. With the mortgage gone, that might change for the better and those charities that I can make one-off donations to will be placed on a roster. It still feels hopeless when the root problems, greed and war, are celebrated by many in positions to make real change, but don't.

We can only do all we can and, while that is less than enough, it _feels_ like it isn't enough