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These days my political engagement is focused on two local/regional groups, in one of them I am but a humble foot soldier and the other one has elected me as its leader.

The thing I keep saying in the group I'm leading is that my main task and responsibility as a leader is to make sure everybody's voices are heard, and I keep noticing that this is so much healthier, not just for the people I organise with but also for myself, than the Protagonist Syndrome I carried around back i my ~aCtiViSt~ days.

Like, hell, I'm only doing this because I want it to get done and the people around me have decided that I'm the person with the right skills to see it through. I do my best and if I fail sometimes, I fail.

It's not like the world revolution hinges on what a bunch of hippies in fuckoff nowhere backwaters rural Norway are doing, we're just taking care of one another and the community around us and trying to build something that will outlast all the nonsense.

One way or another that's gonna make a difference. And that's good enough for me. I'm not doing this to feed my ego, I'm not feeling superior or inferior to anyone inside or outside those groups. But I've certainly come a long way since the days when I thought of myself as an activist.