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Reflection: Your fears & your hopes

What can you do differently?

Tucker Lieberman

10 Dec 2024 — 1 min read

Melted wax after La Noche de las Velitas in Bogotá. Photo by Tucker Lieberman, 8 Dec 2024.

The CrimethInc article I shared yesterday has a section called "Personal Reflection." Below, I've tweaked the questions I found there.

Here are a couple big ones:

If you were to take seriously your fears and your hopes, what would you do differently?
For which fights will you sacrifice, and which risks will you take?

Also:

What's a sustainable level of engagement for you?
What do you need to stay calm, collected, and able to act on your own timeline according to your own capacities, instead of being forced to react?
How might you keep your outrage in reserve so you can act upon it when you choose to, on your own terms?
Are there fights you know it's better for you to sit out?

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