Thread by @monaeltahawy

I get my most unfiltered thoughts when I wake up. It’s as if I’ve been waiting all night to tell myself something.

Yesterday, for about 3 or 4 seconds because it was all I could handle, I grasped the immensity of us all going through this once-in-our lifetime awful fuckery.

It was terrifying.

And my mind quickly shifted to the usual gossip it wants to share with me every morning, like “Hello, how did we get to be 53 years old already?”

And then I told it to shut up, at least until I had some coffee and could handle it.

I was texting with my sister about this flash of recognition of the magnitude of these times and she told me we’re not equipped for it. It’s going to take us a while. Many while’s.

I told her it’s like looking at an eclipse - DON’T!

So you’ve got to figure out a way to see it without becoming overwhelmed.

For those of us who survive - and this isn’t over yet, so take care of you - how best to see it without becoming overwhelmed? ❤️✊🏽💜

There was an actual solar eclipse in some parts of the world today. It’s what was in my mind just before I wrote these tweets.

And with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, these are momentous days for considering how to take care of ourselves.

How best to care of our hearts ❤️✊🏽💜

I will write something incorporating the above soon.

It will be a companion to this: “We will emerge, our hearts unhealed and scarred but awesome.”

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