I am trying to keep my chin up but it does feel like our keepers of wisdom, love, light, and righteous fight are all leaving us. And I know we must pick up their torches and keep running but fuck, it hurts. It really, really, really hurts. - ThreadSky

sorayanadiamcdonald.com • 58 days ago

I am trying to keep my chin up but it does feel like our keepers of wisdom, love, light, and righteous fight are all leaving us.

And I know we must pick up their torches and keep running but fuck, it hurts. It really, really, really hurts.

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srzjswalters.bsky.social•58 days ago

Find a telescope if I don’t have one and stare into it until you can size up the hurt.

jrolle.bsky.social•58 days ago

I comfort myself, both personally and broadly, with the idea that a person isn’t “gone” until the last person they touched is gone. Their light lives within you and all they affected, always 🙏🏽

mdennedy.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yes. It's okay to feel it. It means we still can, and that's something.

mdennedy.bsky.social•58 days ago

We shall overcome. Chins up, brains on, shovels ready.

toniam.bsky.social•58 days ago

This one really hurt. I feel like an “old” but we have lost some truly great ones in the past decade so I feel your pain. Give yourself some grace. ♥️

authoredbyhallie.bsky.social•58 days ago

I understand this sentiment, but there are already people who have picked up the torch and are marching forward. They just don’t all have the level of notoriety that the current leaders have, but they exist and are doing incredible things, often unsupported or not having enough support.

questioningsystems.bsky.social•58 days ago

it's time for a new generation of leaders to step up, the old establishment approach to politics and governance is gone, today we begin rewriting the rules by which we abide and advance as a society

taliajane.bsky.social•58 days ago

imo people come and go, and as sad as it is to lose a lovely person, they ideally are not the whole universe of the cause. we should aspire to being nurturers, make sure the work keeps happening regardless of whether we’re around.

sorayanadiamcdonald.com•58 days ago

You are, as ever, extremely right ♥️

mxmatch.bsky.social•58 days ago

They were never meant to carry this alone in perpetuity. They need us to pick up their torches. They have always needed that. We just wanted to be carried.

jagar451.bsky.social•58 days ago

And it’s going to be really hard. We can do this. Don’t give up.

smallbutsharp.bsky.social•58 days ago

"I am trying to keep my chin up but it does feel like our keepers of wisdom, love, light, and righteous fight are all leaving us"

A thing to remember - those keepers were amazed that people saw THEM as extraordinary - but they shouldered the load

this next gen will pick up the load and carry on.

davidirl.bsky.social•58 days ago

I feel the same way. There’s no end in sight.

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