Georgia Noble Irwin explains why this pandemic just feels – to her generation – like it’s just another calamity in a lifetime of worldwide upheaval.
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atI was on my back porch today talking with a friend who sat two metres away. When she left, I wiped down the plastic chair she was sitting in with rubbing alcohol and washed my hands vigorously even though I hadn’t touched her.
I’ve been witness to a lot of my parents’ firsts. I’ve witnessed the rise in mass shootings, along with terrorism and populism around the world. I was in Grade 12 when Donald Trump was elected president. I watched as people around me stood horrified and ashen faced as the votes came in. Someone like Trump had never been elected in America. I’ve seen the spike in wildfires, I’ve watched time-lapses and videos of the polar ice caps melting. Hundreds of animals have gone.
When my dad and I walked down the street with our dog recently, he exclaimed, yet again, how weird this all is, and how much he felt like he was in an apocalypse movie. I told him that as strange as it was, something about it felt right to me. This apocalyptic, scary, weird, world feels like the world I’ve been preparing to live in my whole life. It feels like finally the image on the outside reflects what’s been going on on the inside. He looked at me and said that made him sad. It is sad.
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