Questioning Energies and Identities

Hello and welcome to unit 1 of Who Am I is a humanities class where we discussed philosophers like Plato and Socrates who I talk about in my podcast.




Script
My name is Tymony and I’m an activist, I’m a feminist, I’m a female, and I’m a person of color. Those are my identities and I’ve come to question my identities with questions like...

Do I have a reason an activist for my community? I have privilege, I am privileged
I’m middle-class, from morgan park and I attend a private school on the north side

But I’m black

Do I have a reason to be afraid of the police because I’m Female-bodied and Identifying, but so was Sandra Bland. I love being black and I assume the best of all black people.
But should I? What if the jail pipeline is fake and “we” are really just destined for violence.
Is the pay gap real? Is modern day feminism even necessary?

Who even am I?

Am I asking myself these questions because the shadowy darkness of my dream-like existence finally being pierced by the light of reality? Wait, let me explain. In Plato’s Allegory of the cave, he (basically) claims that the so-called reality we are experiencing isn’t the true reality but in fact, is a “warped perception” of it. What I take from this is that while we all might not be experiencing a quote on quote true reality we are experiencing what we believe is reality.

What we believe. What I believe. I have really had to do some introspection lately simply because I’m entering a new chapter in life and my past beliefs don’t match my current life. Plain and simple straight out and to the point I didn’t really know what I believed in until recently, when everything in my life finally felt like it had fallen into place, but then fell right back out of it not long after I had gotten comfortable in my space.

A lot of what I believe in spiritually come from my mother and Grandmother as they’ve always believed in the Christian god but never forced me to. However often when I was in crisis my mother did stress how important it is to be “grounded” by a higher power. I feel like it was the same for my grandmother just not those words. She would say that my words affect how everything thing would turn out and of course, 13 year old me did not want to hear that “in the long run all things work out for good”. I wanted to hear that everything would work out how I wanted when I wanted. Of course, I’ve realized that this is not necessarily how things work I’ve learned that (at least in my reality) that my energy attracts what I want or what I need.

I’ve questioned this a lot as well because what about the outside world the world that currently progresses even when I am not conscious of it. The world that has an easy way to stop killing people but refuses to give it up because it’s a hobby for some people. I’ve questioned If my energy and my words control what happens in my world then why do bad things happen, why is the world unfair if I control my reality, why does history exist if I didn’t exist when it was occurring, why is there a whole preset world that I have just randomly spawned in as a female person of color who identifies as such and is a feminist and activist in America. I’m purposefully leaving you with no answers to these questions as I don’t have them and probably never will have these answers. However, I will leave you with this, when the time comes for your reality to be forcefully punctured by the true reality or the truth will you react willingly or violently.

What the Frack!?

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