It feels surreal to go about my morning routine—showering, making breakfast and tea, checking email—knowing that yesterday white supremacists stormed the United States Congress in an attempted coup. In my 35 years of life, I've born witness to historical events like 9/11, the 2008 market crash, and of course, the pandemic we are all still living through. When 9/11 happened it was the first globally recognized "history in the making" event in my conscious memory. I was seventeen at the time. One of my best friends called me that day and said, "I keep thinking how one day, kids will be studying this in school and we can tell them where we were and what it was like to live through it just like our parents with stuff like the fall of the Berlin Wall or Kennedy's assassination."
What a time to be alive...
What a time to be alive...
What a time to be alive...
It feels surreal to go about my morning routine—showering, making breakfast and tea, checking email—knowing that yesterday white supremacists stormed the United States Congress in an attempted coup. In my 35 years of life, I've born witness to historical events like 9/11, the 2008 market crash, and of course, the pandemic we are all still living through. When 9/11 happened it was the first globally recognized "history in the making" event in my conscious memory. I was seventeen at the time. One of my best friends called me that day and said, "I keep thinking how one day, kids will be studying this in school and we can tell them where we were and what it was like to live through it just like our parents with stuff like the fall of the Berlin Wall or Kennedy's assassination."