j This exercise can also help you identify with greater clarity the key aspects of your life that influence your role as activist and your commitment and work in a collective or as part of a social movement. j It also helps you understand better how your activism, which is influenced by different dimensions, interests, issues, social conditions, concerns, and experiences, soon becomes a part of your life in which you make great personal (and often material) investment. This helps you gain greater clarity on why we tend to feel that our 'life depends on it' when things are not going well or the way we want them to. j Putting all this in context helps us understand and deal with the various implications that are at stake in our activism, especially in relation to our ability to take care of ourselves.
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