100 days of looking at the moon
day 2:
today i read a book by a french writer. it talks about how moving on is easy and forgetting is tempting but we must deal with the aftermath of our wrongdoings. it is in the context of humanitarian crises. i think it can speak for other events as well.
i still remember a writer i talked to a couple of years ago said she found a sense of “generational trauma” when she visited vietnam. we do not talk about it but we know it is a thing and it is there. we either brush it off or reinforce certain unhealthy ideas. we always talk about moving on and how it has been a long time and people should forget about it at this point. but, pain is always valid and time sometimes cannot heal everything. at least, wounds cannot heal on their own in a passive sense.
something needs to be done before all the people are dead and pains become impossible to understand/relate to. dead people cannot speak or apologize or open up a conversation. the gap between generations remains open.
similarly, remembering must be a part of healing and moving on. it cannot be a separate entity.
song recommendations:
comatose - low hum
moon - kid francescoli
