We are told that a crisis or trauma is not just something we can heal from but something we’re supposed to learn from. I come from a people who have experienced a lot of pain, and the idea of learning from pain is problematic to me because it implies we had somehow deserved it or that collective suffering has some higher purpose. If everything happens for a reason, this video is about all the lessons from the pandemic that I have not learned.

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