Y'all, I know you want to live in a world where diseases don't exist, where you can go about your day without a care in the world.
But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.
I know you wish to live in ignorance of the thousands who die from disease (Covid in particular), the thousands more who end up permanently disabled, and the thousands that are now immuno-compromised.
But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.
I know you wish to pretend the increasing genocides, such as Gaza, Sudan, Congo, and others, aren't happening, so you can eat happily without worrying the hairs on your head. Despite the fact that tens of thousands are dying, where aid is being blocked, where colonizer states are lying through their teeth and not even trying to hide it.
But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.
I know you wish to chant to yourself that Climate Change isn't real and doesn't effect you. That the world isn't turning more hostile to life, so that you can continue to wander through your days without a care. Except, the weather turns more and more violent, where the permafrost melts and releases feedback gases, where the rivers start to run orange and red, where the sea levels rise, where millions are displaced, where hundreds of thousands are dying, where forest fires leave the sky a permanent orange or grey.
But today is not that day. That world is not this reality.
Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away. Pretending everything is just fine doesn't erase the horrors currently happening. Doing nothing doesn't help anyone, let alone you. This apathy is hurting all of us, so instead of falling prey to this falsehood, wake up.
Wake up and listen to those of us who fight for a better and more just present and future.
What does help? How do you rise up and avoid apathy and despair?
By talking with each other. By recognizing the horrors. By acknowledging the very real grief, by working through that grief with one another.
By supporting one another, by loving one another.
By rising up to stop the horrors through marching, political actions, writing campaigns, and other actions.
By pushing for more sustainable ways of being and fighting to get the policies passed and followed-through.
By demanding cease-fires and demanding aid to those in need.
By helping those who the pandemic has isolated and left to die -- getting them food, healthcare, support, and housing.
By building community gardens and sharing food with one another.
By holding forums for your community and talking through the needs of your community. By talking through solutions and finding an egalitarian way to implement them.
By building community with one another.
By building a community that fights fiercely to leave no one behind. To fight for a present and future where everyone has access to food, clean water, housing, healthcare, in-person and virtual support, and Internet/electricity. Where no one has to fear the bombs of another, where no one has to fear for their lives.
This is all possible. We can achieve such a just present and future.
But it requires work.
So will you put aside your yearning for a falsehood? Put aside your demand to return to a past that never really existed?
To instead, take my hand and fight with me for a present and future where we all are able to thrive and exist as we are without fear?
Because today is that day. Today is that day to fight for that reality.
Thanks for reading.
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