The responses of
various friends to national and world events have left me disillusioned. Did I
ever know the true spirit of woman who sits in mass daily and yet defends the
attack on the Capitol? Did I misjudge the friend who insists her right to refuse
to mask and vaccinate during this pandemic outweighs my rights to stay healthy?
Did I naively trust the man who now insists he must own and display an AR-15
when I visit?
Have these people
always been so different from my vision of them, and have they donned masks
throughout our years of friendship? Or have they changed without my noticing?
Can these relationships recover, or will these disappointments color our interactions
from now on?
Already, there’s less
contact initiated by these friends towards me because I know the insurrection
at the Capitol endangers our democracy even as those supporters of our former
president defend The Big Lie more than a year later. I encourage everyone to
get vaccinated for COVID-19, wear masks, and social distance because it’s the moral
choice for not just our country, but for the world. I cannot “un-see” the
photographs of my friends and family arming for a war that they aspire to
begin.
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