Without hesitation, says a friend when you needed validation for your aching heart.
It aches for your son struggling to build the connections in his brain to learn in a virtual world, learning new shortcut keys to mute himself with his left hand, while rushing to click off "raise hand" to the teacher with the mouse to his right - lest he gets called out by the teacher for not paying attention.
It aches for the patient you call daily as she has only strength enough to slit her wrist, and then at least she would have done something right.
It aches for the young adults in science labs, breaking microscopes and wasting pipette tips, as they are so frazzled, their fumbling hands seem disconnected from the rest of their bodies.
It aches for our esteemed elders who are dying in the thousands without saying goodbye to anyone as their face becomes a freeze-frame in time. It aches for the doctors and nurses who zip up body bags only to walk out to conversations from COVID deniers.
It aches for those deniers who just want some normalcy.
It aches for those teachers who feel a need to call out the online students because they have no other choice than to teach virtually.
But "Without hesitation" is what I needed to hear. No waffling, no politics, no balancing the pros and cons. Just "Without hesitation" to do what is right.