Popping the Purple Bubble

A lot (maybe all) of my posts so far have been about my quarantined life at Williams during a time of a global pandemic. Which is what I attempted to highlight, but it’s easy to forget that there is so much more happening outside in the world. During the fall semester, sometimes I would catch myself slipping into the purple bubble and tried to climb back out by carving out time to read the news or call my friends in different parts of the world. But with COVID-19 dominating the headlines and being stuck on campus with not too many other people, I ended up not taking notice to the events happening all around in the background. Now that I look around, so much is happening. I’m privileged to live a life where events like these didn’t really interfere with my learning during the semester, but now that I have the mental capacity to be sad and angry and disappointed at the world, I will do my best to learn and help as much as I can.