This is my view right now. The tranquility and beauty that lace island life are painted in the clouds. But witnessing this joke from the other side of the world brings tears to my eyes that even the food poisoning of the last 12 hours can't summon. I don't care if you've heard this before. I don't care if anyone actually reads this. I just need to write it some place outside my mind so I know it exists. Almost everything in the world can be traced back to love and fear, and today fear won. As a woman, an LGBTQ+ ally, a survivor of sexual assault, a supporter of science, a believer of climate change, and someone who has friends of all races and varying beliefs, I am truly saddened at the thought of returning to the place I had always seen as progressive with stubbornly hopeful eyes. I'm sorry if this is cliche, but this election was elevated to the level of personal and moral offense. As someone who usually prefers to observe rather than to make noise, and as someone who is aware that multiple friends and family members voted today in a way that makes me feel small, I can't help but feel the need to let out these turbulent emotions. Maybe it's egged on by the fact that I've been puking all day, but even being in this beautiful place can't erase the deep sadness for the values of love, acceptance, truth, and equality that were blatantly ignored for material values and bygone views. If anything, this just shows how much work our out-of-date education system needs, because ignorance is not bliss, and tolerance comes from understanding. Everyone's connected in this strange universe, whether you'd like to believe it or not. I hope one day everyone sees that.
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