With everything that's been going on, tension is growing all around us. Can you feel it too?
I work as a case manager at a youth homeless center and it's getting really difficult not to radicalize the youth that come in for services. I have to explain to them just how bad the housing crises is, and basically lie to them that if they get a job they can find a way out of poverty… but the system is rigged against us. There is no peaceful way to create change. It takes a whole lot for me to not radicalize these youth. I want to tell them to fight back. To educate themselves. Don't work for companies that prey on desperate people. I feel so hopeless. I want to help them but what can I tell them? I also dream of owning a house, building a garden, growing my own food, keeping chickens, raising a family. I don't know if I'll be able to get that life. The dream was always a lie sold to earnest people trying to make the best with what they have. It's all a scam.
I just really wanted to vent. Today's been hard. There's always so much bad news every day. Things are not getting better. I can feel something big is about to happen. Suddenly I understand the Buddhist monk who lit himself on fire during a protest in Vietnam. I feel that today. We're all suffering. Life is suffering, but does it have to be this way? I'm ready for the revolution.