“My fatigue, your fatigue, my anxiety, your anxiety, our collective pain isn’t a failure of our heroism, of how we can’t take it anymore, but is rather, a reminder that we shouldn’t have to be heroes to survive in this country. The pain is our body’s quiet acknowledgment that we were owed something better from those in charge, and every time they forward this responsibility to us (as private citizens, pastors of churches, owners of businesses) and we claim it as our own, it can and will only produce chaos, fear and this overwhelming sense that we’ll never be enough to fix it.”
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