Don’t forget to take care of yourself

If you like me get overwhelmed by the news and the combatting of malinformation, don’t forget to take a break when you need it. Burning out will help nobody.

The propaganda machine can spam information with no effort, but we have to work hard to spread the truth through organizing and community building. Our work is important and we have to keep doing it today, tomorrow and all the days after that. You can’t change peoples views with one conversation, it takes seeds and the building of community they can turn to whenever they are ready to change their view.

We have to constantly deal with the contradiction of the urgency of change, and the fact that we have to be patient in order to effectively change peoples minds. Getting overwhelmed by this contradiction is normal and it’s valid to take a break once in a while to come back strong again.