“Back to Normal” can’t happen. We are here. Now. We can’t wish away #COVID. We must change. We must adapt. I can’t wish away my #cancer. I have to change. I have to adapt. To survive. I had to let surgeons cut my skull open twice. I’ve made major lifestyle changes. Huge career 1/
Changes. I’ve had to look my mortality square in the eyes. It’s terrifying. You know what’s not painful? A mask. You know what is painful? 2 plates, 4 pins, and 55 staples. Twice.Ouch.For.Real. What is being asked of us is so minor. My parents and grand parents lived in times 2/
Of war. Of a draft. Of being sent to their death on foreign soil. We got called to sit on our couches. We got called to wear a mask. And we have more than a million dead. This is appallingly shameful. How selfish can we be? Is this difficult? Yes. Do we all want this to 3/
Be over? Of course. Will it be the same? Never.And we shouldn’t be. This pandemic showed us things we should be ashamed of.Things we should all make haste to correct. Inequity.Systemic racism. A narcissistic society devoid of compassion for the disabled and immunocompromised. 4/
Poverty.Unequal access to basic necessities.If you can see these things and don’t feel moved to change? Are you even a human being?Where is your basic humanity?We all have the capacity to help or to harm.Sitting by idly while horrible things happen is complicit to oppression. 5/
It is so easy to help. Act from love. #WearAMask Give where you can. Speak up when it is necessary. Observe your own actions. Are you hurting or are you helping? If you need to change, do it. The time is now. Our human family needs all of us. Right now. 🙏💗Rant over. /end
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