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Aug. 13th, 2022
Resentments in a Time of Pandemic
Aug. 13th, 2022 06:20 pmI resent having had COVID-19. No matter how mild my case was.
I resent that others have suffered and died of it, and are suffering and dying of it as I typed these words.
I resent being told to "learn to live with it". I resent having to bear witness to others around me being told to "learn to live with it".
I resent being made to take more chances with not only my own safety, but that of family, of friends, of strangers than I am comfortable with on a daily basis just to get by, by way of the careless choices of other people. Those people making these careless choices could be the person behind me in line at the grocery store or in the premier's office at Queens Park. Doesn't matter. The consequences for me and mine and the strangers around us remain the same.
Leslie Charteris - so I remember imperfectly - once wrote that our resentments will kill us if we let them. The resentments I count above are ones I fear I'll have to hold onto to keep myself and/or other people alive in this time of Pandemic not yet ended.
I resent that others have suffered and died of it, and are suffering and dying of it as I typed these words.
I resent being told to "learn to live with it". I resent having to bear witness to others around me being told to "learn to live with it".
I resent being made to take more chances with not only my own safety, but that of family, of friends, of strangers than I am comfortable with on a daily basis just to get by, by way of the careless choices of other people. Those people making these careless choices could be the person behind me in line at the grocery store or in the premier's office at Queens Park. Doesn't matter. The consequences for me and mine and the strangers around us remain the same.
Leslie Charteris - so I remember imperfectly - once wrote that our resentments will kill us if we let them. The resentments I count above are ones I fear I'll have to hold onto to keep myself and/or other people alive in this time of Pandemic not yet ended.
