As-salaamu-alaikum Everyone,
Ya'll still there?! Are you surviving this phenomenon, the likes of which the world has never seen? If you have, I encourage you to journal. Take notes of what you see and hear. It may seem like insignificant bits of information now, but in the future, your children and other young people will have so many questions. In fact, in a few months, we will have so many questions ourselves. How did America survive a life under COVID...while protesting in the streets...as they continued to fight wars long forgotten by the public? What was happening while we were distracted in quarantine? In the age of internet and social media, sometimes we can become victims of information overload. So many major events happen that it becomes difficult to remember the life changing event from last week.
Think about things you have studied in history. Its one thing to read about it in a book. It is a completely different experience to speak to someone who lived through it. How does it feel to look at their pictures, their newspaper clippings, to hear their stories? Often, they have information that history books omitted. Now, you are living history and are responsible for protecting it. Pay attention to it. Capture it. Remember it. Then share your stories and your wisdom with the next generation.
Brother Joshua
