“Today I wore a mask to Target.
I was hot.
I was uncomfortable.
My glasses were foggy.
No one could see my really cute lipstick I just applied before I put my mask on because I still have standards to uphold people. Also, the lipstick thing is automatic, and I keep forgetting about the mask.
I smiled with my eyes at my fellow mask wearers to encourage us all in our mission of love. Friends, masks are not a symbol of fear. They are a symbol of love. We know wearing a mask protects us some, but even more so it protects those around us.
If there’s a chance we could be sick and not know it, even a small chance, we care for those around us by wearing this bit of fabric around our faces.
We accept being uncomfortable and living differently and taking this extra step as a way of serving those around us as a way of acknowledging we are all connected and what I do might, in fact, affect others.
‘You do you’ is really no way to plow through a pandemic. We need each other like it or not. So, we wear a mask as a way of saying we are all in this together and even if I am just fine, I still care about what happens to you. As a way of trying to get back to living in community together outside the walls of our homes.
