Thread by @monaeltahawy

I am at home all day everyday because there’s still a fucking PANDEMIC!

I have all the time in the world & I feel I don’t have enough time.

I am rushing, rushing, rushing with nowhere to go.

I am impatiently waiting for absolutely nothing to happen.

Up is down and down is up

It isn’t a “Take a walk” and it will be better thing.

This is an attempt to grasp the magnitude of what this pandemic has done and continues to do. I don’t think many people recognize that.

This endless loop I feel stuck in the middle of is a world trying to become unstuck

And I’m thrilled - enervated, energized, euphoric - that the Black-led uprising that has gone global is giving us all a jumpstart.

I am alive. I have food. I am v lucky.

In this endless loop, the way I’m trying to become unstuck, the jumpstart I’m giving to this moment, is to channel my longing for physical freedom into a mentail freedom. I am jumstarting my imagination and pushing it further than it’s been

It’s hard. I have to say. Trying to run far with my thoughts while being physically confined.

I think of something to write and I challenge myself: that’s it? That’s what you think will change the world? Ha!

And I jumpstart/kickstart.

Defy. Disobey. Disrupt.

And this mini thread started off in one place and went somewhere else which is *exactly* how I feel.

Ha.

And so I’m making tea until the next cloud/thoughtburst.