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I attended @MatthewGreenNDP's new years levee yesterday and after signing off, I felt p overwhelmed with emotions in a way I didn't really get why. So I did as I do (scorpio tingz) and distracted myself until it went away lol. But after sleeping on it I realized what it was (1/ )
The last year I was laid off twice from a job due to covid I’d been at since moving to Toronto 2 years ago. One that called us “family” when convenient but didn’t even care to check on its employees through what was – for a lot of us – the hardest year of our life.
I watched through this time a government implement measures that kept me alone & away from my family and other supports, measures that were virtually useless so long as they refused to impede on big business and corporate profits too.
I spent so much of the last year feeling like no one from above gave a f***. This only further cemented that I can’t lean on them for meaningful support and should just focus on ‘doing me’ to survive. This is the individualist mind frame that is so common in capitalist societies.
One I want to change and don’t align with even slightly, but felt myself feeling so defeated from. And then I heard him talk with such passion and with such solidarity with people like me and realized, maybe I don’t have to be.
This is just my own mushy story (ew lol) but I share to remind anyone reading that people that there are people that care about you. You might not even know them and if you’re lucky, they might even be in positions of power and to make real changes out of this care they have.
This is what we need to ask of politicians. This is why they’re there. And it is NOT too much to ask. A better world and a better parliament is frickin possible. It literally has to be.
