Thank you, Aimee, for sharing this inspiring speech as we struggle through the darkness that has descended (a second time, but much worse). I was feeling distraught and frustrated about my writing. I had waited for my private life to settle, after the tumultuous separation from my ex, to start writing my memoir. And then came the unexpected election results! But reading this speech and the various writers you cited, I feel a new sense of motivation to pick up the pen again, and to tell the story of mind control and how I've broken free from it throughout my life. The story of Mulgakov tells me that the most important thing is to write, whether your work will be published or not.
So true Lily. I feel unprecedented connection this morning to my grandfather who faced so much terror and horror in fighting for his ideals in China. He never gave in. Our context now gives me the immediacy I was missing for my essays about him. As my beloved friend Carolyn said YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL GET TO BE GRATEFUL FOR 💔💙🙏🏼
Yes, indeed! And I look forward to your writing about your grandfather's fight in China. Certain themes emerge in adversity. I didn't even have words for the thread that runs through my life, until now, when I tried to untangle the skein of the election outcome. Mind control played a huge role in how the right-wing media "converted" even the constituencies that are poised to suffer most under a Trump administration. As someone who has been mind-controlled my whole life -- by parents, cults, religions and intimate partners (one of whom turned into a Trumpster), I can now see with clarity how even people who seem decent and upright can fall into a collective hypnosis. It's hard to say it out loud, that I'm grateful for these painful experiences. To look at them from this perspective is perhaps the only redeeming factor that I can hold onto to fuel my writing.
Thank you, Aimee, for sharing this inspiring speech as we struggle through the darkness that has descended (a second time, but much worse). I was feeling distraught and frustrated about my writing. I had waited for my private life to settle, after the tumultuous separation from my ex, to start writing my memoir. And then came the unexpected election results! But reading this speech and the various writers you cited, I feel a new sense of motivation to pick up the pen again, and to tell the story of mind control and how I've broken free from it throughout my life. The story of Mulgakov tells me that the most important thing is to write, whether your work will be published or not.
So true Lily. I feel unprecedented connection this morning to my grandfather who faced so much terror and horror in fighting for his ideals in China. He never gave in. Our context now gives me the immediacy I was missing for my essays about him. As my beloved friend Carolyn said YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL GET TO BE GRATEFUL FOR 💔💙🙏🏼
Yes, indeed! And I look forward to your writing about your grandfather's fight in China. Certain themes emerge in adversity. I didn't even have words for the thread that runs through my life, until now, when I tried to untangle the skein of the election outcome. Mind control played a huge role in how the right-wing media "converted" even the constituencies that are poised to suffer most under a Trump administration. As someone who has been mind-controlled my whole life -- by parents, cults, religions and intimate partners (one of whom turned into a Trumpster), I can now see with clarity how even people who seem decent and upright can fall into a collective hypnosis. It's hard to say it out loud, that I'm grateful for these painful experiences. To look at them from this perspective is perhaps the only redeeming factor that I can hold onto to fuel my writing.