It’s Sunday and it’s raining, and I wonder what’ll happen next.
I’m spending my days absorbing the murders that continue to shake the U.S. (Tyre Nichols and the unending wave of mass shootings). Somewhere between it all, I’m inching along as each day starts and ends, and I can’t help but think we’ve all slipped into the next chapter of dystopia living.
Am I the only one who feels a strange kind of otherworldliness about existing right now? It’s one bludgeoning after another, and it won’t stop. Can’t medicate ourselves enough with shows, fast food binges, and the usual consumable depressants.
What’s been said has been said, and the fight continues on. There’s no going back to “normal.”
I’m feeling less like a human in this country and more like a living object stripped of agency as women’s reproductive rights are dismantled in multiple states.
Now I wonder if, much like generations who survived the Great Depression, World War I, and World War II, how will the events of the last seven years scar and continue to affect us and those who come after us?
I’m trying to stay positive, stay aligned with personal and professional goals. Read, write, and keep going. Some days it’s easier, but today I swear I feel the churning waves of something greater, darker, approaching on the horizon, inching closer as each day passes. I expect the unexpected. War? Famine? What’s next?
Ukraine fighting on, and the pain of continual murders in the U.S., either through police force or gun violence. I’m having difficulty putting it into words and documenting it all. It’s more than overwhelming.
How do you cope with the loss of the last three years? How many continue to suffer from losing friends and family due to COVID-19?
I haven’t posted in a while because my mind’s been swamped as I navigate making something of my life while juggling the gravity of everything happening.
How have you managed yourself? Are you able to compartmentalize what’s happening and then push on? I need something more than meditation and self-help books. I need hope.
Thoughts? Share them below in a comment, and let’s have a positive chat.
Currently Reading:
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
Listening to: Deep Dive: 80s Pop