IsabelSydow on Nostr: I've had the state hit me on the head with the butt of a riffle & arrest me when I ...

I've had the state hit me on the head with the butt of a riffle & arrest me when I was no older than a teen for protesting. We were thousands of teachers who had gone unpaid for months and months.
Scary, but I've been even more afraid and in worse circumstances before & after.

Truth:
Our futures are not guaranteed.
A flipping volcano can erupt, an earthquake can bury me alive, a tsunami can drown me.
Our breathing is not guaranteed.

Live cautiously.
YES.
Live even... fearfully, as to grow the navigation senses & skills so we can become both: shrew as snakes & innocent as doves.
but
LIVE... without letting THEM run your show.

Be ungovernable.

(Self portrait. That's me down there)