I just went to Walmart at lunchtime to pick up a prescription, and as I’m parking I see a middle-aged woman who is just finishing putting her purchases away in her pointlessly huge SUV. She pushes her empty shopping cart a few feet, so that it’s out of her vehicle’s way, but blocking another car. She gets into her car and starts it up, but can’t pull out just yet because by now I am about to walk in front of her. As I go by, I grab the cart she just abandoned and pull it behind me, leaving it directly in front her car.
I kept walking into the store, not looking back. I wish I could have seen her face.
"Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear."
“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”
