Gravity Is the Thing

by Jaclyn Moriarty

Happiness is . . . not available. I just want the world to be all right. Just, everyone be all right. I can’t stand it anymore.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. Jean-Paul Sartre said that.

As if the “real” problems don’t have solutions too. Stop basing your decisions on profit margins. Stop selling guns. Stop flying your drones and your private jets. Stop stamping out your cigarettes on other people’s flesh. Let the lost and broken people into your big wealthy country. Let the children into their mother’s arms, stop with the shiny, plastic things. Toss these weapons into the garbage. Pop these frightened people into a warm house. It’s simple. Easy. Stop complaining.

Does biology distort a mother’s vision, or clear her vision so she can truly see?

Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it’s knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.

Eventually, you will find the kindness to forgive your former self for hope, and for mistakes, and the courage to angle the anger in the right direction.