The world feels like it’s ending and all I could think about is to write.
I recently came across Nina Simone’s An Artists Duty video, Simone states that as an artist it is our duty to reflect the times. That is what this will be and yes I would like to think that we are all aware of what is happening around us, in front of us and so on but I think it’s important to highlight not only the catastrophic but the sweet and tender things that make us feel cozy and lucky to be alive too. So without further ado, hi, my name is Daisy and I am a born and raised Brooklynite. I am an Aquarius sun, Pisces moon and Sagittarius rising. :)
What does that mean for you, the reader? That every now and then we will grace each others presence with thought provoking material that leads us to dream of a radical movement towards world peace, empathy for the future and the path to a millennial’s independency from what the boomers have left for us to clean up. Just kidding, but, not really. And no, you don’t have to be a millennial to read this column but you do have to have an open mind, something that is rare to come by, I know. Think of it for the generations that are going to come after us and have no idea of all the trauma we have experienced and still do and how to spark our rage and what to do with it.
Our thoughts matter, our dreams matter, our voice matters and I'm hoping that we can help each other give our voices a platform to be heard and read while we still have the right to. The world feels like it’s ending and all I could think about is to write.
One of the stories that I am currently working on for the next column is an idea that I had one day as I was meditating in an uber on my way to a meeting.
Let me set the scene,
I was getting ready to leave my house and I realized how nervous I was to meet with this person because it was obvious that this meeting was the first stepping stone to the path of my dreams and career. Intense. So I obviously took a daytime gummy (one I have taken before and one of my favorites, FOY) and finished getting ready. I knew it would take about an hour for it to really hit and do its thing, and that it did. And no, this is not a traumatic story about how wrong it went, its about the story I am currently working on for the next column remember?
Anyway, the gummy hit while I was in the uber meditating. The coach was guiding us on a journey to figure out the direction of our inner compass and what we would want to define us. High and all, I thought about what I would want to define me, once I have left this physical realm— because we must think like that when thinking about what we would want to define us— and really, all I could think about was that “Daisy just wanted world peace.” And really, where did I even get that idea from? Well, my gummy helped me take me on this journey along with the oh so calming mediation music. Side note: I love watching movies—something you will read a lot about when I’m referencing, anything and Gracie Lou Freebush from Miss Congeniality also really just wanted world peace. And, yes, I will absolutely be judging you if you don’t recognize any of the movies that I mention because I don’t consider myself a movie buff but I do really enjoy watching movies, so I know the basics and classics— Miss Congeniality? A basic and classic. And that took me somewhere else, were we groomed as millennials to want all of these unreachable, unrealistic hopes and dreams for the future world we thought we were going to live, retire and have an adult life in?
From movies like Miss Congeniality to collecting spare change in our cardboard Unicef boxes, were we persuaded into thinking that we could change the world? And at what price?
And that’s what we’ll be exploring next…
So while we wait, I ask you, what would you want to define you and where does your inner compass direct you?
