Medea and Stumbling on Stones: Part II

Why did University of Toronto turn into a cemetery?

Surprised by my own strength, I marvel how unlike Medea, I managed not to come undone in what I don’t feel is an exaggeration a prolonged shredding of my soul, a test unlike any I could have imagined. I am infinitely grateful for the new friends I have made from abroad and reconnected with locally, led to in meeting as if by divine intelligence. As we emerge from one form of tyranny and are submerged by another form of digital totalitarianism, I am struck by how our societal and economic fabric remains fractured beyond recognition. Just like the bravest of actuaries, scientists, medical anthropologists, economists, and Nobel Laureates correctly predicted the harms the draconian lockdown policies would impose on society early on, it is the harm of social and economic polarization that keeps us harmed. A reality I grapple in accepting, find difficult in resisting, embedded in a struggle of striving to cultivate meaning and purpose for my life in an overwhelming and uncertain world.

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