I have many things I am extremely worried about.
Our current predicament, with Covid-19, worries the hell out of me. Watching the news and reading about the numbers of increasing deaths due to the virus feels me with such grief. My heart goes out to their families and my own fears that any of my family members could get the hit by the virus feels me with dread.
Then, I just hear that a brutal stabbing has happened across the road from where I live. What the fuck is going on in this world ? I am so scared, to the point I fear the life of my own black son, who is soon going to embark on teenage-hood and I have to soon cut the apron-string off. I am considering moving the hell out of my area. But I am not in a financial position to do this.
All what's currently going has put a lot of things into perspective and It has just suddenly struck me that we take life for granted. The fact I'm here everyday is a blessing. But, I just hate what's going on in our society, the poverty, the drugs (I am very anti about illegal drugs), the illnesses...virus, the state of the planet, lack of support for mental health, lack of adult care and support for young people with special needs.
I don't know what the point of this post was. But, I am shit scared and hugely reconsidering putting another, hypothetical child, into this world.