We should all grieve about the state of the world. It can be an integral part of activism | Kelley Swain
R.IME appears to be moving in strange ways for many of us. “It seems that mourning, account and activity require different speeds,” said one of the colleagues. I often believed that “moving the gears” between my paid work and the beautiful in -mannered work seems to be an old handcraft that I do not fully understand. Lurch. doctrine. Add to this mix of work and children of parenthood and motherhood the collapse of the world in which one has arisen, and there are many granules from just wide gears.
The thing is that the world does not change: our delusions are finally pulled around the “West”, however, our perceptions of time.
When I managed to visit the United Kingdom, where I lived nearly 18 years ago, which I considered (in confusing and complex ways) my home, was one of my oldest friends and dearest friends in the midst of family difficulty outside the scope of their usual experience. When Mick was eight and eight years old, his sister, Kwaker Gaie DelapHe was imprisoned to work against climate change. At the time of my visit, Mick and the rest of the family were in the midst of the introduction of her case in the media as much as possible, because Gaie was supposed to have a sign that allows her to be at home, but for several months, a sign could not be found.
The important point is that the UK government has spent some time and imprisoned a 78 -year -old woman trying to protest the government failure of climate change, because her heart is broken to her grandchildren. The government prefers to put it in prison instead of doing something curse to reduce climate change.
He was sitting on the other side of Mick and crying with him about his sister who was in prison, who was suffering from bad effects on her mental and physical health due to the circumstances there, was modest for many reasons. Here was the elderly who I was yearning for, the sadness between generations and fighting for the justice that I was wondering. I like many people in their generation fight, moreover – psychologically and perhaps more important – I can recognize the pain and suffering that affects all of us. They also suffer, and they are also fighting. They are sad, publicly. There is solidarity in it.
I, and many of us are inherited Protestant backgrounds, do not learn to express sadness. Stoicism has been supported more worthy of praise, but we have often learned that the river bridge only leads to the explosion of the West Bank somewhere in the direction of the river. Think about this generation. As the young writer Adrian Marie Brown wrote: “This concrete, active and continuous sadness is an unacceptable part of this period of tremendous change. Sadness is one of the most beautiful ways we love. We are sad that we feel our feeling and communicate with each other.” Solidarity in sadness creates communication, society and spirit, which makes us go. There are many cultures and societies that were doing it a long time before the start of this, but I am finally grateful for them.
More importantly, the recognition of the interconnected and brutal collapse of Western settlers, capitalist, military industrial complex, genocide and climate change does not mean that the individual must feel that he is Their mistake. Yes, we can do what is better. We can always “better failure”, as Picky writes. But the difficult thing here is that if one feels it Their mistake, They often interact counter – retreat. Close. You don’t want to talk about it: “This is not my fault.” Instead, I suggest that we all be sad. Look for others who are sad. As Joshua Shri in emerald podcast says, sit with your neighbor and breathe together. Feelings of interaction create separation. However, given the writing of Joanna Messi, sadness is an integral part of the activity. So it is gratitude. Think about a set of standards, perhaps: sadness on the one hand, gratitude on the other hand. Activity Sitting in the middle.
What is the activity, we may ask? It took some time to understand that it comes in many forms. I hope, in some way, this writing is activity. Millions of people in the streets, all over the world, walk civilians, twist, wave flags and protect their neighbors, or speak to support people all over the world who have never met them: this is also activity. And sadness. Sitting with your friend, mother, neighbor, sadness. The time it takes will recede and flow in unfamiliar ways: allow this. Feeling of pain and complexity, together – this is also activity.
