Welcome to the Weekend

I know you

This is a letter written to a child I saw being heavily corrected by their parents. I am imagining them getting this in 20 years and feeling super seen. There will be a few in this vein.

I know you.

You survived.

You survived by joking, by laughing, by playing, by finding light, and finding humour everywhere you could because that was the only way to make the rest of it bearable.

You survived the teasing by learning to tease. You survived the insensitivity by developing your sense of timing, your sense of humour, your joke radar, your gift of knowing the perfect thing to say or do to change the breathing of everyone in the room.

You know something. You can MAKE people do something that affects them on the most basic level. You can change how people breathe. You survived because learned how to do this.

You survived with an embodied understanding of ‘this too shall pass.’ You survived knowing that laughing makes it pass more easily.

You survived by knowing that when things are at their worst t…