Lately, I have been watching the show Fallout with my partner, and there is a lot I can relate to with about the main character. She emerges from her underground bunker to a world she doesn’t understand and regularly tries to help others distinguish what is right from wrong. While I am not a saint, by any standards, and have my fair share of regrets, the idea that she wants to live in line with her morals resonates with me.
Having an ideal version of how life is supposed to be, how others should behave, and so forth, can be a great quality to have in some cases, because it means seeing a better future or seeing what is possible. On the flip side though, it can also be wildly disappointing when not only the world doesn’t live up to your expectations, but not even we live up to our own.
As a teenager, I was brought up with the idea that war doesn’t solve anything (eg words are more powerful than physical altercations), and adopted a passion for veganism, feminism, free speech. There are parts of me that miss that version of myself, but I was also screaming quite loudly for my own view of how others should engage with the world too. What I have learned, is that what I consider ideal, is not everyone else’s version too.
In my ideal world, we do not feel inequality and discrimination, we take care of the environment, ourselves, and each other. And creativity of the mind is always valued, rather than punished and receiving threats to try and weaken it, when the imagination does not conform to what others want from us or deem acceptable.
The Sunflower and The Cashier 
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