I don't want to be a good person or be seen as a good person.
I want people to be okay.
I want people to have enough to eat.
A safe and comfortable place to stay.
I want people to have friends and family that love them.
I want people to not have to work jobs that are cruel and degrading.
I want people to be understood, cherished, and seen as equal by everyone around them.
I want people to have medicine and healthcare.
I wan people to have wam clothes when it's cold.
I want children to have an education.
I want children to have full access to kind, welcoming, good-quality, recognized education.
And I want that for adults too.
I want children to be with an not be separated from adults that love them.
And to be able to play with other children.
I want everyone to have some time to rest, and talk to their love ones, and play.
I want people to be kind to each other and not bully each other.
I want the air to not be making us sick.
I want people to be safe.
I want people to be able to follow their hearts and souls.
I want everyone to be treated with respect.
I want people to be able to talk about their thoughts and emotions and desires and experiences, to people close to them and to the world.
I want people to feel mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and physically safe wherever they are.
I want people to not have to do anything that causes them pain and/or distress to do.
I don't want there to be fucked up power imbalances.
I want people to grow up, live, and die as people who love and are loved by everyone else.
I don't want anyone to have to worry about losing their home.
I don't want anyone to not know where their next meal is coming from.
I don't want kids who don't want to be separated from their families to be so.
I don't want people to have to worry about not affording medicine.
I don't want people to be in a situation where they internalize the abuse and discrimination against them.
I don't want people to be abused.
I don't want people to be discriminated against.
I want every person to have equal power in the government I want true democracy.
I want nobody to have to sleep outside on the hard concrete ground. Or the hard dirt ground. I want people who are sick to be able to rest and heal without worry.
I don't want anyone to go for days without eating. Or one day without eating. Or one meal without eating.
I wan the food to be nutritious.
I want all children and all people to feel wanted and welcome and cherished and equal.
I want people to not have to mistrust each other.
I want people to be able to get away from their abusive parents or spouses or whoever is abusing you.
I want clean water and good sanitation for all the people.
I want climate change to end.
I want people to not die.
I want people to live good lives where they're happy.
But how much do I want it? How much?
How much?
How much do I want it?
It's not enough to want these things.
You have to want them more than life. I have to want them more than my own safety or my own happiness.
I do have to because right now isn't the time to feel victorious. 💔
It's not the time to sing the "We Did It" song from Dora.
Like, we didn't do jack shit yet.
But we will. Oh we will, we will, we will.
You have to want it more than comfort though.
More than yourself. More than your life. More than you.
Because right now everything is wrong with the world and we have to fight with everything we have.
385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAJdaoIvBd
If you like this piece check out my Mastodon my account is [email protected] and I post about human rights, social justice, and the environment.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLw9qYh9v2
and then Add to home screen.