Don't conserve what little you have during lockdown. Generate more.

When you're low on energy, low on morale, low on self-belief, just low in general....it might seem like the best strategy is to conserve what few resources you have left for those parts of yourself you think are the most important or valuable. 

But you only have to look at how the The Conservatives operate to realise why replicating their mistakes and applying austerity to our own bodies will never leave us feeling better.

You have to invest your resources into things which are real and here, now. Not promises of what you'll get in the future. You have to invest your resources in things which are natural but also feed everything else, making the pursuit of dreams and ambitions possible to begin with. Investing in the living environment around us in order to help it make more of itself to nourish others.

YOU WILL FIGHT ON REGARDLESS

Give everything you have and still more, until you've expended all energy and collapsed in a heap. But know that you would rather have it this way than be beating yourself up forever; pissed up and consumed with rage created in you by witnessing the daily injustices Power has normalised and caused many decent working class folk to now fear losing. 

Don't shut yourself away from the chance to continue to fight with fellow comrades hard-wired to carry on till the bitter end, whose determination and resolve can reignite your fire and make you want to sharpen the blade of your intent and stand up again.

It's precisely these moments, where one feels like they are being suffocated by a blanket of ominous dread, wielded by the hand of Power that is prepared to do whatever it needs to in order to win, that you have to say NO. You're not having it. You won't accept these feelings of helplessness. You won't allow yourself to act in accordance to the script they've written for you. You will fight.