Folks we are truly and utterly screwed
I’m glad it’s resonating. I went through the deepest depression of my life and could not bring myself out of it; not with meds, not with diet and exercise, not with all my usual go to avenues of self-reflection and adjustment. Eventually, I came to recognize it as grief, and realized I needed to process it as such. I had to go through the phases and let myself feel it DEEP instead of trying to desperately keep my head above water. Since then I’m a changed person - but by accepting the future with all its ugly bits, I can begin to see the avenues of hope and plan my life more strategically. It’s truly liberating and I think it makes me a better revolutionary. I hope others can find that relief through grief and similarly use it to ground themselves.
It’s hard to come to terms with the idea that we must grieve for the future we thought we would have but it is liberating in a way too. Thank you for that insight.
In a way, it’s a death of the self. The person we thought we would become and the life we had hoped for are simply impossible given climate change. That hurts bad. But once we’ve let go of that imagined future, we’re finally free to imagine another. Even better, we’re in a place of consciousness and awareness when developing this vision instead of patching it together based on whatever garbage we passively pick up from hegemonic ideology.
