A Moment Together
I need a moment. I think we all do. I think that the whole world, right now, needs a moment.
A moment to think. A moment to reflect. A moment to breathe. A moment to process.
There’s a lot going on. Everywhere. And for everyone. And it’s coming at us faster and faster, in more vivid, explicit, and intense detail than ever before. We’re seeing things we never thought we’d see. We’re watching things happen that we’d always relegated to “somewhere else.” We’re experiencing a reality that feels like fiction.
We have been living in times that have been referred to as unprecedented for so long that the word has almost lost all meaning. And through it all, we’ve been expected to carry on as normal. As if normal was even a thing anymore.
I don’t know how to do this anymore.
I don’t know how to prepare dinner, clean the kitchen, go to work, go for a run… as if it were any other day. All while I know what is happening to other humans - people just like me - who should be doing the very same things and cannot.
I don’t know how I am supposed to pretend I’m okay when my social media scrolling goes from makeup tutorial to fitness routine to footage of violence we thought only happened in video games.
I don’t know how I am supposed to watch families be torn apart and then send my kid off to school with a kiss and a smile.
It’s exhausting.
So please. If you don’t mind. I need a moment. And I want to give you one, too.
Because we need to keep going. We need to witness. We need to know. And beyond that, we need each other.
We need to remind each other that this is real, but that we can make a difference. We need to support each other as we feel all of the feelings. We need to give each other soft places to be… whatever we are in any given moment. Scared. Sad. Angry. Confused. We need each other through all of it.
I don’t know what to do at this moment. But I do know that, together, we can work to make the moments better. For all of us.
I need a moment. We need a moment. Let’s take this moment. Together.
