“I’m fine, really”: How I found hope as Covid swept India
My friend jacopo was in the Dominican republic for his honeymoon last week briana got the second shot of her vaccine in america and my colleagues met up for a drink at
a london pub but
here i've been finding it hard to sleep every night.
I wake up and
doom scroll the same words jumpout oxygen ventilators a hospital bed
a death a baby
born too early it's mother dead too early yet another death.
what if mom
let the neighbor in what if my cousins fall i think back just three months.
My colleagues
in london stuck in lockdown going through the horrors of covert and
Me celebrating
birthdays dining in restaurants traveling home.
I’m fine really locked in an apartment with two humans and two cats but this is what fine on the outside looks like they say yoga helps and meditation and music i try it all and every time
I pick myself up
a little more someone i know dies or someone i know knows someone who died
collective
trauma a traumatic event that's shared by a group of people and can affect even
an entire society I look back at my family history it's 1947.
more empathetic collective trauma acts as a social glow after bombing tsunamis and earthquakes research shows that people tend to work together they act selflessly and care more deeply for one another but in these other events you could meet your loved ones hug them be in the same room as them how do i find hope when there seems to be none because that will help me for every request for an oxygen cylinder or an icu bed or a life-saving drug an army of people come together to help a stranger we are socially distanced and isolated but in this together so i scroll again knowing that everyone is scrolling with me you.
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