to my queer and trans friends
i don't want to be caught uttering something as trite as "you will make it through this." i mean, you will make it through this: you've made it through a lot of things.
what i want to say is that you will live a life through this.
you will wake up about once a day. you will see the moon. you will eat good food. you will hear the sound of trees shaking in the wind. you will smile at stupid jokes. even as some things undoubtedly become harder, you will experience countless moments of simple animal joy.
when a Big Thing goes Horribly Wrong, we feel washed away. our future hides from us just out of view. sometimes we worry it might not exist anymore. but the future comes around no matter how much or how little we worry about it. eventually we get there and we find: the future is just a day like any other day, containing exactly one day's worth of problems for us to solve, and one day's worth of animal joy with it. no matter what.
don't lose sight of that, okay?
