A Creative Writing tutor said us, writers, shouldn't share too much on social media. We should limit our online presence, for fear of how what we write can affect our futures.
And even though I, too, recognise that as a blogger and youtuber, as an instagrammer and a person with relatively strong social media presence, I run the risk of revealing too much, I cannot help myself.
Because I have a natural urge to create art and share it with the world. Now, I may have also shared personal moments, but it was always was the greater good, so that others who may experience similar situations, do not feel alone.
Or I may have shared my views on politics, and the reality we live in.
But as an artist, as a creator, isn't that what I am supposed to do?
Artists are special -and magical- creatures, people who can create from scratch, in addition to being inspired by what happens around them.
And especially in times like these, when political instability and irrational governing threatens the very core of our humanity, it is my duty, as an artist -and a human- to create, to act, to speak up.
I am an emotional person. A person who can empathise. When others feel pain, I can feel their pain, I can understand their position.
So, to see that which has taken place in the past 11 days... I am devastated.
At first came shock. Then, denial. Then, acceptance. Now, depression.
At 28 years old, I have no hope for the future.
I strongly believe the world is so fucked up, that it cannot be fixed in one, two -or even five- generations.
It took a very long time for things to become the way they are now, and that cannot be undone so easily. If I wasn't weary of copyright, I would share a few poems I wrote these days, but oh well. Maybe in the future.
We live in financial slavery, in ill capitalism, in cultural imperialism, in environmental crisis, in severe inequality...
The world we live in is controlled by an elite. And that elite will do anything and everything to stay at the top of the pyramide.
Not sure we stand a chance against them, despite the fact that we are a majority.
And that is because there is another factor that plays a role in this: the ego.
Which can also cause stupidity and people to be stuck up in their ways and blinded.
Good luck to all of us my friends.
Good luck to the underprivileged, good luck to the ones belonging to marginalised social groups, good luck to the ones who aren't brainwashed zombies and suffer due to the knowledge...
And good luck to us surviving by the rule of the ignorants, who -very unfortunately, make decisions for the rest of us...
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