I know that’s full of privileged
The only thing I thank for quarantine
We always have to look the good into the bad.
QUARANTINE has come to stay for a long time. Probably not in calendars but absolutely in our mind time is passing so slowly and without a sense of what day are we.
I understand very well, that you can feel boring these days. Many people are just staying at home checking the growth of coronavirus globally. Our activities have become full of entertainment like Netflix or Amazon Prime; YouTube videos or just looking at some tweets or Facebook posts. Well, I got tired of that too.
Then I start to work on my projects. Don’t you ever feel, that you’re doing what you love and that’s exactly ‘working’, but you don’t feel it like ‘work’? Well, that’s exactly what I feel when I write (not just here in Medium), also I have my projects about poetry and essays. And those have become a paradise where I just simply wouldn’t have if Quarantine didn’t come.
During this pandemic crisis, I had the opportunity to finish my two poetry books: Años Cautivos (Captives Years) and Morisecos. That’s for me and absolutely achievement, because probably like you have, my life is very exhausting of many things to do. And this gives me a unique chance to re-find me with poetry.
My philosophy is humanism and that kind of topic has to measure all those human conditions that generate inequalities and less-value of life. Especially for those who are structurally in the lowest in our society. Carmen Lyra once said: “To have one rich, there have to be hundreds of poor”. That’s exactly what our society has right now. And into a crisis, we’re seeing that debris who suddenly appear it never exists.
Why did I say that? Because many people of mid-rent have many opportunities to find a good point into all this crisis. Many others — especially those which Lyra means, don’t have a choice to stop during this crisis. And if they did, are losing their jobs: the only one increase they perceive to eat dairy.
Stay at home has started considering a privilege, but we cannot generalized that. It means for many people to lose their jobs and in these circumstances, it is very irresponsible to say that. What we have to look inside, is the privilege of understanding this crisis without worrying (that much of depending on it) of losing something.
I know this article can look very contradictory, but well, that’s how real life is. During this pandemic crisis, I appreciate found me as a privileged who works every day its empathy for others, not in front of this desk writing on Medium; if not helping from many other spaces, with the investigation, working in my community and certainly, making more bearable this time for those who have a need.
I mean, Capitalism has made our needs, privileges. I’m trying to understand why many people called every activity as a self-privileged. Making all that we see as ‘privileges’ is a slope to the perspective of a critical argument against inequalities.
Yes, I’m lying
I found more than a ‘thing’ to thank this pandemic crisis: the definition of privilege with a democratic vision.
And that means, not having a total dimension of privileges finding the differences in others. Humans have created rights, and we have to advocate for more and defend those which we already have. Privileges are not the same as Rights. The ‘Conceptual Stretching’ is making too many struggles to understand what we have to fight.
I found me in March, advocating for rights, not for the privileges. We have to raise our voices to have the same rights, not the same privileges. And if there are many cultural issues to fix, like xenophobic legislation that make differences between people or sexism in jobs, we have to create rights that make the appropriated guarantees to make respect the rights.
So please, do not confuse privileges with rights; even when it is in our vocabulary as a fashion word.
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