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This is a struggle I find myself in now. I was very politically active in my youth, and I'm currently looking back on everything I did thinking "wtf was the point of any of it? Should I have just focused on college/employment the whole time? If I did, would I have been in a position to escape?"
In the past, the big thing that kept me going was my local community. Sure, I never accomplished anything that reached a further stage, but I was at least making my local community better. Eventually though, I was given the opportunity to leave my shitty local community, and I immediately took it. Now I live somewhere great, that fully represents me, to the point that I started taking a step back from politics. No reason to campaign for an opposition mayor if I like my mayor, right? I still go to the monthly town hall meetings, if only to assure myself that things are going well locally, but I'm less vocal. I don't really need to be, and that's wonderful, but it's pushing me to be even less active.
I'm sure my hometown has gotten significantly worse in my absence though, since visiting family feels like visiting a corpse. Did I even make a difference there, or was it a temporary mirage? What was the point of any of it?