Sometimes I think about all that we've endured and survived, and it takes my breath away.
Because it's never survived by all of us, is it?
We're the planes that made it home from war, riddled with bullet holes on less-essential parts.
We say to ourselves, look how resilient we were!
As if everyone cut down just wasn't resilient enough.
We're not still here because we're any better than the people we've lost.
But we *are* here, facing the next test, and the next.
And that has to be enough.
(I know we're still a month off from the two-year anniversary of Russia's invasion, but it's all just hitting me very, very hard today, how much this world of ours is committed to compounding hardship with more hardship. Active cruelty and callous indifference aren't the sum total of all that we can do in this life - but they are terrifically *loud* parts of the human experience all the same.)
I had a similar 'moment' regarding the October massacre and ensuing tomfuckery, a few days back. Status-quo is objectively heinous.
It 100% is.
Keeping up with the latest is still part of my daily routine, but I've never had a problem watching the latest footage of atrocity; the real heartbreak always comes from the way it's spun.
So many of us aren't able to see *people* right now--just data that either work for our narrative or against it. Elevate what serves. Ignore or deny the rest. This is pure gamification--and so long as it's our register, we're stuck.
We can't go forward until we're human again.
Maybe the target can be slightly *less human.* If anything, our (individual and species'-wide) Isolation comes from our perceived uniqueness.
I think human needs redefining. At the very least, we can lift the veneer of the present facade, though it's admittedly humbling shitwork. Maybe we all need a dose of humility.
If that's the metric though, for change, there's a lot on the line. Such a gamble seems pretty human to me. π
And if those rhetorical questions read like me asking you to solve All Our World's Problems, Bosmang...
Sure! Why not? π 2,000 words on my desk by Monday. (π)
@MLClark
Yes, please ππ lol