Carmel High School really demonstrates the problem with how we fund U.S. public schools. Carmel, a hyper wealthy community, was able to put up a college-sized school while many other schools in Indiana struggle to even get updated textbooks and updated classrooms.
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
I hate to admit it but … i don’t want to work. I want to have fun and dance and play and love my life. I don’t want to survive i want to live. I want to feel the breeze on my face and the sun on my skin every day. I WANT TO BE TOUCHED LOVINGLY AND WALK THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS
I have never come back from any holiday feeling relaxed, refreshed & reinvigorated to get back into work.
I come back with the taste of freedom, still fresh in my mouth, a renewed hatred for work, and a strong suspicion that this is not what I should be spending my life doing.
In the future people considering children will ask themselves: "why do I want a child?" And if the answer is: to get unconditional love, or to have a 'mini-mi' they will reflect on why they are looking for their child to meet their unmet needs.