That bottom post is such a perfect summation of Adam's narcissism and faux-empath behavior that I'm in complete awe. I see this mindset with beta losers all the time. They view their own lives as being so completely FUBAR that they have to throw themselves onto other people's lives to try and fix them as a distraction. By doing this they get to cast themselves as noble heroes, sacrificing their own personal happiness in order to help others, which always turns out to be bullshit for multiple reasons:
1. They treat helping people as a flex, rather than just a good-natured act that needs no further applause. If Adam by sheer accident ever did something right that helped somebody, it'd be such an ego boost that he would never shut the fuck up about it. If he helped an old lady get her groceries to the car, he'd be strutting and crowing about it on twitter like he was eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. By treating others' problems as a way to occupy yourself so that you don't have to face your own inadequacies, you inevitably trivialize their issues and get yourself in way over your head. You also risk enabling shitty behavior by not looking at a situation in terms of how you can actually help the other person, but rather how you can distract yourself, even if it means being forced to repeatedly put out somebody else's trash fires instead of letting them deal with that shit by themselves.
3. Most of the time, the shit these betas are dealing with that they consider impossible to fix is really not that difficult. Cultivating a mindset of self control, self motivation, and checking your ego at the door is not a Herculanean task. It just requires you to be committed to a process rather than only being fixated on the results.
On that last note, the vegan diet thing. The number one difficulty with taking on any diet is being able to actually stick to it. A diet of choosing to eat half a pizza for dinner instead of a whole pizza is better than eating nothing but salads for 2-3 months and then going back to eating a whole pizza for dinner
if you can actually stick to it. Veganism is a very strict diet with a lot of expenses built into it, which makes it appealing for people who want to virtue signal but harder for people who want to make genuine, sustainable life changes.
The problem Adam has with everything is he gets involved with things in grand, sweeping gestures rather than smaller, sustainable methods. He pays thousands of dollars for cosplay when he could make easier, but less flashy, costumes for much less. He spends a lot of money on a gym membership instead of starting with a personal routine of bodyweight exercises he could do in his house. And now, he's considering going vegan instead of maybe just adding some fruits and simple salads into his diet.
Big and flashy is good if you want dopamine hits from social media interaction, but if you actually give a shit about changing your life, simple and sustainable is better. Every time.
