The Story of Me & The Project

Hi my name is Jasmine,

back in 2020, I had a bike accident, and since then I’ve been dealing with chronic pain. Although I am feeling a bit better as well as learning how to work around the pain, I am severely affected in my everyday life and it has left me depending on the people around to a degree I could have never imagined.
I am so incredibly grateful for my friends and family who have supported me though it all and who support this ambitious project I started.

In 2023 I had joined a climate activist group because I felt the need to do something — anything. I was so tired of feeling hopeless and powerless. Because of my pain it felt impossible to contribute to the world, all I felt was a burden.

Joining the group didn’t go as planned. In fact, it ended leaving me feeling more hopeless and powerless than before I joined.  

The feeling stuck with me, and it became one of the core reasons I started up this project…

At some point, after I left the group, I picked up a book and there was one very part that stuck with me.

The book talked about Utopian dreams — and why they matter. One point stood out:
“If we want to change the world, we have to first be able to picture what kind of world we want.”

That’s what a utopian dream gives you — a vision. Something to aim for.
From there, the rest becomes about grounding that dream in reality: What would it take? What steps could lead us there?

These two events — feeling hopeless and powerless despite caring deeply, and later reading that book — are what shaped what became my dream

Continue here to read about my dream