Gamble On Humanity
Apuesta por la humanidad--por Ayisha Siddiqa
¿Qué pasa si el futuro es suave y la revolución es tan amable que no tenemos un final a la vista?
Ciudades enteras respiran y la mala suerte se vence con una promesa a las hojas.
Resistir tu propio fin es difícil.
El futuro juguetea, prometido a nadie, como es su derecho.
La rabia contra la injusticia hace que la voz sea aún más áspera.
Si el futuro se va sin nosotr@s, el silencio que seguirá será una nada indecible.
¿Y si le convencemos de que se quede?
Qué raro y hermoso es que existamos.
¿Qué pasa si dejamos atónita a la existencia una vez más?
Cuando me despierto, se levanta de la cama, mi prima de siete años.
con su estómago quebrado y se une a nosotr@s.
Le siguen mi abuela, tías, mis otr@s prim@s
y la forma violenta de su agua potable.
La tierra lo recuerda todo,
nuestros cuerpos son del color de la tierra y nosotr@s
somos donnadies.
Habiendo nacido de tantos apocalipsis, ¿qué es uno más?
El amor sigue siendo la única venganza. Crece cada vez que se prende fuego a la tierra.
Pero por lo que merece la pena, lo haría de nuevo.
Apuesta por la humanidad cien veces más
Comprométete con la vida encomiéndate a la vida, mientras los árboles caen y nos llevan con ellos.
Seguiría al amor hasta la extinción.
Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la noción de que el amor es la única venganza? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de una vez que apostaste por la humanidad? ¿Qué te ayuda a comprometerte con ‘vida para vida’?
Ayisha Siddiqa es defensora de la justicia climática de Pakistán. Vive en Coney Island, Nueva York, una zona costera muy propensa a huracanes e inundaciones. Es cofundadora de Polluters Out y directora ejecutiva de Asuntos Estudiantiles de FFU. El 20 de septiembre de 2019 ayudó a movilizar y dirigir a más de 300 000 estudiantes a las calles de Manhattan exigiendo que sus gobiernos tomen medidas climáticas.
Ayisha Siddiqa is a Pakistani Climate justice advocate living in Coney Island, NY, a coastal area highly prone to hurricanes and floods. She is a co-founder of Polluters Out and the Executive Director of Student Affairs at FFU. On Sept 20th, 2019 she helped mobilize and lead over 300,000 students onto the streets of Manhattan demanding their governments take climate action.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that love is the only revenge? Can you share a personal story of a time you gambled on humanity? What helps you commit to ‘life unto life’?
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13 Past Reflections
On Aug 26, 2023 Angela Buffington wrote :
I sob for the doomsayers who lose,
And laugh with the naive who win.
If only hope and vulnerability were so powerful, and greed and domination made no mark on history or could be blown away like yesterdays fallen leaves.
The future is in our children, and those who care to make their world thrive.
I’ll stand with humanity’s children, and the wisdom in our grandmothers not because I believe their truth will win.
Choose wisely which master you follow, which dream you attend. What wake of mortal souls is left behind you as you seek to win. Find unlikely compromise as tough love, killing with kindness, giving to infinity, sustainable progress. Hope braves this warrior into battle, as love of humanity’s children sharpens my sword.
And laugh with the naive who win.
If only hope and vulnerability were so powerful, and greed and domination made no mark on history or could be blown away like yesterdays fallen leaves.
The future is in our children, and those who care to make their world thrive.
I’ll stand with humanity’s children, and the wisdom in our grandmothers not because I believe their truth will win.
Choose wisely which master you follow, which dream you attend. What wake of mortal souls is left behind you as you seek to win. Find unlikely compromise as tough love, killing with kindness, giving to infinity, sustainable progress. Hope braves this warrior into battle, as love of humanity’s children sharpens my sword.
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On Jan 2, 2023 Holly wrote :
Courage inspires my faith in humanity.
Courage to love again and again.
Courage to lean back into life when death feels like the only solace.
Courage to stay when you feel like running.
Courage to face cruel adversity in the hope of security
The optimism of our human heart has always astounded me
Courage to love again and again.
Courage to lean back into life when death feels like the only solace.
Courage to stay when you feel like running.
Courage to face cruel adversity in the hope of security
The optimism of our human heart has always astounded me
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On Dec 24, 2022 Derek wrote :
Love. What a powerful word. It seems the world is full of hate and where love is denied. People want to act as if love was something they could leave or take
They have defined it as love is showing sides of weakness. We can not put our beliefs on our emotions. Either an angel of merch. Or give into the hate
They have defined it as love is showing sides of weakness. We can not put our beliefs on our emotions. Either an angel of merch. Or give into the hate
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On Dec 20, 2022 Jason N wrote :
I work in harm reduction. It's hard work because of it's proximity to suffering and death. A few months of hard work holding space for people to use drugs with compassion and radical hospitality in San Francisco. It seems like a good place to practice for whatever the future brings. Overdose is respiratory depression and I have reversed so many now I cant even count. These folks are the human version of cannery in the coal mine. It seems like we can learn from this radical hospitality when we point it to the people we love to hate. There is something profound about the drug Narcan/Naloxone. It gives the gift of breath that we all need to survive. I will follow love into extinction. It is especially true & I commit to save the life of the unhoused and unloved because it wakes up the neglected parts of the self.
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On Dec 20, 2022 Christine Grace wrote :
LOVE LOVES TO LOVE. YES, AND, THANK YOU, BELOVEDIVINE, FOR SHARING YOUR LOVE SWEET LOVE
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On Dec 20, 2022 Ruth wrote :
I continue to give all "the benefit of the doubt"--- to believe until results results and revelation put compassion in its place. There is nothing that deserves judgment---only recognition followed by compassion. All the "d" words can disappear: disdain, disgust, disapproval, dismay, denigration, on and on and be replaced with compassion, company, community. So my alphabet begins with A for acceptance, the proceeds to B for belief, and then goes to "c" for compassion. I can stop there.
Someone stole a ring I was selling to help pay my daughter's college tuition during an especially challenging financial time for me. The police were convinced a fellow worker was the thief, but I knew him and did not believe he would steal from me. A half year later, the police caught my friend in a trap they set and came to me to "gloat" that I had been wrong in my belief. When they revealed that he had been caught, I realized that I was only sorry that he had not come to me in his need s... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 18, 2022 David Doane wrote :
No end to this human lifetime would probably be difficult and boring; the end to it will probably also be difficult, though probably not boring. We don't know when this wonderful duration will end, so it makes sense to me to make the best of it. My beliefs: Change is always, death is change, and silence will occur just as it does in the present. "We are nobodies" -- we or the essence of us are not bodies. Love is oneness, we exist within oneness or love, change and death occur within love, and love is infinite, eternal, and much bigger than change and death -- if that is what the author means by love is the only revenge, I agree. By not committing suicide and staying alive, I gamble on humanity, I stay in the game, I commit life unto life. What helps me to life unto life is that I find the trip or experience satisfying, I enjoy life and the learning and growth that occurs in it, and I want to play out this human life until it ends.
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On Dec 17, 2022 Nisha wrote :
Athabks for sharing this vibrant piece. What if we convince future to stay back is a powerful thought and for that, love seems necessary but not sufficient.
Wonder what all the author means by "violent shape of their drinking water".
Wonder what all the author means by "violent shape of their drinking water".
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On Dec 17, 2022 Jagdish P. Dave wrote :
Gamble On Humanity written by Ayisha Suddika presents a bold, brave, and courageous perspective on dealing with serious problems we have been facing in the world: problems like social injustice, racial and other forms of discrimination , and world wide pollution. There are different ways of dealing with such problems. Such as ignoring them, having an 'ostrich mentality', or taking revengeful actions. Great contemporary leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Dalai Lama and a few others have taken a different route: a route of non-violence, demonstrations, compassion, service, and uncondional love. Such leaders have taken road less traveled even at the risk the of being assasisnated.
Under the leadersip of Mahatma Gandhi India followed the path of civil disobedince and non-violence. He took a gamble, a bold innovative step. We followed his path of non-cooperation and no-viloence and got liberated from the grip of the British rule. I have been following this path in dea... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 17, 2022 Ted wrote :
When I live by the labels I apply to what I see, then death is the opposite of life, darkness the opposite of light, and love the opposite and only cure for hate. That voice speaks loudly of suffering here, and is strident indeed. Right thought, right action, and life are not limited by those theoretical divisions, but uniquely fit each moment of existence, every moment of now. Sometimes with the large voice of thunder and lightning obliterating the dead trees (making room for new life), at other times in the even larger silence of freshly fallen snow, or the whisper of the breeze through the leaves that echoes long into the future. Fortunately, only the temporary can end! The whole is so much more than the labels I applied to the parts...