I can relate to this. I only feel confident and happy in very specific clothing, and any time I’m forced to wear something else due to religious reasons or business expectations, I feel awful. I remember crying when I saw myself in the mirror after a friend gave me a makeover when I was 15.
I think there are going to be some big changes that come out of this. I think my company will probably end up downsizing the office, if not eliminating it completely. There are definitely going to be companies that have never allowed remote work before that will start allowing part-time remote work. I hope you do get some remote options for the future.
I'm very curious to see what a DisneyBound Space Mountain would look like.
I'm usually pretty reserved and private myself and am starting to feel these effects myself. And I'm fortunate in that my work routine remains by and large the same, so I am interacting regularly with my co workers and such. But still it begins to take its toll when I can't go to church each Sunday and see my friends at Church.
These really are such challenging times. My little brother is a police officer and is thankfully on a lengthy family vacation when all this stuff is happening right now. It's so sad that so many good people are being judged solely on the the color of their skin and not the content of their character as Dr. King said and so troubling that so many good and honorable police officers are being judged by the actions of a very small number who in no way, shape, or form represent the people who work hard to keep us safe. Challenging times indeed.
Plan is the CM outfit, which I can't find a picture of at the moment. But now I'm thinking if maybe I should just wear all white and put a cone-shaped thing on my head and see if anyone gets it.
Yeah. I'm still seeing my teammates a lot because all of our regular meetings have become video meetings (they actually always were somewhat because we're remote-friendly and actually have some full-time remote people). But I haven't seen the inside of a synagogue in about 3 months and I haven't seen most of my neighborhood friends in even longer (because I was in Florida then only saw a few people when I was back and then went to my parents for a week and then everything closed). It's tough.
Yeah. My perspective on this is definitely colored by the fact that I live in a city where the cops are known to have a racism problem. And if NYC, which is such a diverse city, has a police racism problem, it's hard to imagine that other cities wouldn't. But I do know that there are a lot of good cops out there, particularly ones who call out the racism and discrimination when they see it, even though it could cause a lot of problems for them, and I hate that we've gotten to a point where many people don't trust the police because the "bad" ones and "good" ones (for lack of better terms) wear the same uniform.
So true. Now especially. We need to listen. We need to respond with kindness. We need to share our stories, find our common ground, and celebrate our differences instead of using them as weapons. We need to learn to love our differences, not fear them. I have seen a lot of kindness throughout the protests - people along the routes passing out water, people harboring protesters in their homes after curfew, healthcare workers applauding the protesters, people trying to find calm solutions to disagreements, protesters protecting stores from looting ... it's easy to see the negatives of what's happening, but seeing all the kindness and good things people do gives me hope.
I read a news article last night where a group of police officers dropped to a knee before a tense protest and it almost immediately defused the situation. What had been tense almost immediately turned into protesters hugging the police and vice versa. Afterwards, many spoke about how much that simple gesture meant to them. I wish it was getting more publicity because it shows exactly the sort of listening you're talking about. Listening and looking for peaceful solutions out of love and kindness will help so much. Racism is an awful and ugly thing. I saw it very up close when I lived in Russia while serving a mission for my church. I know it exists here in America. But I also know that we as a nation are better than we used to be while still having room for improvement. I like how Arizona State football coach Herm Edwards said something to the effect of "We are America. We can be much better." I like how that appealed to, as President Lincoln once said "the better angels of our nature." We are far from a perfect nation, but that does not mean that we cannot work hard to be better. And that begins in our own hearts.
Yeah, nobody would get it. I'll probably just end up with a general space theme. I have time to figure it out.
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