By Claire Booth
I’ve been
thinking a lot lately, about how much we need one another. And how much the two
big current issues have proven that.
Coronavirus
has cut off everybody’s contact with everybody else. No get-togethers, no
taking my laptop and working at the coffee shop, no school, no anything. Necessary,
absolutely. For me, it’s driven home how much even small, everyday, in-person
interactions matter for mental health. And then there are the normal markers of
time that have excruciatingly evaporated—Easter egg hunts in April, baseball in
May, swimming in June. Right now, my God, I just want to have a barbecue.
Our second
need for one another comes with Black Lives Matter. The need to look through a
lens that is not your own, to see the world as it affects others, and then to
affect change. It’s not a new problem, that’s for sure, but right now we absolutely
need one another to push this forward, to keep the momentum going.
So there we
go. Humanity in contact, humanity in connection, humanity in equality. And as I write this on the Fourth of July, a hope
that the future brings all three.
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