Knuckle tats that say Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.
To anyone that needs to hear it: Yea, it’s impossible to go back in time to experience the things that we once knew and loved. However, being stuck on regaining that nostalgia, wanting to go back isn’t doing anything for you. Looking back all the time prevents you from looking at, experiencing, and enjoying, or hating the now; it prevents you from growing as a person. The beauty of the human experience *is* experiencing. To have nostalgia, to have memories, to look back is a gift that the human experience gives us. Constantly chasing the sense of childhood or familiarity, or simply staying inside the bubble hurts, it hurts way more than leaving it behind, and this is coming from someone who used to be always look back.
So promise me that you won’t get stuck in the past, that you will be able to live in the now and hope for the future. Life is wonderful. Experiencing is wonderful. The gift of nostalgia is amazing. Don’t twist it into something that isn’t, please.
Live life and let yourself out of that bubble, no matter how scary. Let yourself grow, let new things become nostalgic, and continue forward with memories of the past.
No one is discrediting the student protests. I myself am a student who is partaking in largely student-coordinated protests, drives, campaigns… but I also understand that we are largely missing the point if coverage of these protests overshadows what they are actually protesting for—the atrocities committed on Palestinians every single day. As the western buzz around this genocide gets more and more coverage, the coverage of the genocide itself sharply declines. It’s true and I see it every single day. Things are not being reported with the precision and diligence with which they should be.
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.