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While I was staying at a rehab center a couple years ago, I packed a little bag to come with me, for my cosmetics, creams and potions- A  gift from my mum. It was light pink and had  a smiling, blooming cactus on it, written under the plant was „We will Survive“ in a funky font.

I know it's supposed to be funny, because cacti can survive the craziest climates with little to no water and nutrients. They're good at surviving, because they can store water and stuff very well. And probably they are very stubborn plants. But cacti don't bloom very often, do they?

Contrary to popular believe camels, who also survive in the desert and also are said to be very stubborn, don't store water in their humps. Or hump, singular, if it's a dromedary. It's stored fat, so they can carry on being their amazing old-world camelid selves, without eating a lot.

I wondered what it was and where I stored the thing that kept me going, when I found myself in the harsh climates of the last 3(0) years. Maybe it was the fat stored in my thighs? The water in my swollen eyelids when I cried the night before? Those were probably just accessories.

When I was younger, I felt a certain sense of pride, dealing with my health issues alone, because there just wasn't anyone there. Relentlessly marching on, like a stoic, little soldier in a pink, well fitting uniform. I CAN DO EVERYTHING BY MYSELF, my flag would wave. I DON'T NEED ANYONE, my solitary battle cry echoed from nothing.

Every time I was in my bathroom, untangling my curls or putting on sun screen, my eyes would drift over to the cactus bag and the clever sentiment.

At one point it made me very angry.

Must I be a cactus for the rest of my life? Must I be a camel wandering the desert, when it has been very obvious, that I need sunscreen in October?

When I went for walks in the forest (they made us do them regularly, with nordic walking sticks, which I hated with the power of several suns) I liked to touch moss, which can also survive a lot of shit. But the moss didn't seem so lonely, not standing around solitary in the sand, with spikes guarding it. I am not a tree hugger. I used to listen to punk when I was a teenager. But I did touch a lot of forest fauna. Moss was thick, trees are strong, fern is very fucking delicate.

Wondering what it was like to be a fern, (which is really hard to keep alive, if you ever had some sort of fern in your home) I began to resent the concept of resiliency, they preached on every media platform since the lock downs. Since my first therapy session, since my first recession, since that time the world trade center fell, since I first had to be scared about climate change, or the hole in the ozon.  How to live through the loneliness of individualism. Countless therapists and counselors would tell you to “Learn to love yourself first” “Fill your cup from the inside” “Love will come into your life when you finally learn to be alone.”

Those are very western ideas, based in individualism. And I followed them, to be a independent young woman, who don't need any man or basically anyone at this point. On you march, love.

I was alone in my room, watching telly during that night, when news broke about an active shooter in the inner city of Vienna. I really didn't mean to, but I saw security cam footage of a person being murdered in a city I also call home, because a news station broadcasted it, drunk with sensationalism and lust for clicks.

Those cups weren't filled from the inside, they were tossed away. I was able to sleep only, when I reached everyone I know who lives in the area and heard they were safe. And I was scared for my muslim friends, fearing the backlash of the travesty.

Those self-help mantras are not made for us. They were made for people who lived in a different world, one we can't remember, because we either weren't born yet or too young to remember. They're from a place where the world was your oyster and economy was booming in the western world. Those books are not written for us. We need to find new ways. 

During that stay, my uncle died too.

I have a big family, so people dying of old ages is inevitable. We also knew it was coming, it wasn't old age. But it's never any easier. My friend once said to me, your family is so used to death and loss, you have a whole protocol everybody follows and is akin to. I never took it as anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes I wondered if all of the cancer cases had something to do with the war or maybe Temelin.

Of course, with the restrictions and lock downs, I wasn't able to follow the protocol I was so used to, since I was just a kid. Some of it was catholic upbringing, but rituals work, no matter what. You develop own rituals of course, with time. Some own rituals to bear the grieve. There wasn't the communal praying, the black clothes and the funeral, that gave narrative to complicated events.

It was just me, in my little room. I wasn't even able to light a candle. I'm not religious at all anymore, by any means, but it's hard to shake habits.

When I was truly alone with grieve, no family or friends, no ritual, nothing that was I was accustomed to, to give me a protocol and security and balance, I had to rethink my battle cries and banners.

While they are very true and they had to work for me, I wondered if one could keep up the charade of being and island for a whole lifetime. I figured, I couldn't. I couldn't anymore and the way the world developed, there was no way to regurgitate these sentiments without completely ignoring the now and here. “We” has to become more important than “I”. I feel like, that is what we owe the next generations.

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