Sondos Al Sad
Thanks to the “mutant” common cold virus that has challenged our resilience and exposed our flaws like nothing else. We have witnessed “the taboos” getting liberated into our public court; everyone now is talking about religion, politics, and sex.
The pandemic was an invitation to reclaim ownership of our minds and admit that there is no mindfulness when our perspectives are hostages of unilateral narratives! We were equally unprepared, yet the impact showed enormous disparities.
As a mother, I got exhausted fighting for a space in my career when I have gracefully earned my degrees! Unsurprisingly working mothers carried the heavy lift of the inequities in the healthcare exchange, yet disappointing, and astonishing how we let such oblivious transgression become an occupational norm?!
Moreover, when we fall at any intersection of the demographics, it further complicates our burdens. Our experiences were often ridiculed and invalidated. We had to challenge this concrete thinking of “our way or no way” with a persevering growth mindset.
Our resurrection is strongly tied to how much compassion we earn towards those who suffered our complacency for long, the largest of whom are women! Radical empathy has to be a main ingredient in our healing potion, we lost more people to our habitual apathy than we had to COVID-19 .
Fellow sisters, stand up for each other.
Do not shy away from sharing your content, and lead by unlearning old habits yourself. Beware that the preconceived cynicism has served many egos and wickedly consolidated the procrastination to educate ourselves about “the others” potential.
To women who shouldered it all, life is too short to live it at a discounted rate, so please be kind to yourself and unconditionally practice intellectual solidarity with EVERYONE! We own our characters, and everything else is rental. To the women who reclaimed their power in a system that was not designed to
gracefully embrace their womanhood, I am so proud of you!
