9/19/2023 0 Comments Cat attacks runner?![]() The awareness has always been wide-spread. The movement to wide spread awareness of public sexual harassment, especially in the running sphere, is a counter intuitive sentence. Our shared, unspoken experiences became, slowly, spoken. Our longer, better lit routes home became social media posts which we shared a collective, female, eye roll of understanding. The side eye we passed to the honks from cars became mutters of annoyance to our friends. Far too ingrained a problem for me to have an impact on.īut, nonetheless, I talked. In fact, I saw the whole topic as too big. In fact, I vividly remember sitting in my garden, talking to my housemate about how royally pissed off I was and how useless I felt at the fact that my one out-door-hour-a-day’s exercise had, once again, been ruined by a sad-ass workman showing off for his van mates.īack then, I wasn’t even aware of the proper term “public sexual harassment”. I didn’t start writing about public sexual harassment to try to fix it. Little did I know that it would become inherently more important to a journey and passion ongoing still to this day. A nice, rough, barky tree I was able to get between my shoulder blades to scratch away the stress. The stress of potential job loss and the other novelties covid bought with it eventually evaporated from a pain that kept me up at night to an itch I was able to scratch with distraction. ![]() I spent hours mulling over how to keep busy, how to best fill my time, how to be useful. I fell into the same trap we all did of seeing this “time off” as an opportunity to be productive. Be with our thoughts and think about our impact.Īs someone who has suffered from anxiety for most of her life, I knew I couldn’t sit back and wait. Life had surged to a somewhat unstoppable halt. Despite the wide-spread despair, heartache and uncertainty, it was probably the first time in many of our lives that we were able to take a step back. ![]() For many, last year saw a readjustment of priority. ![]()
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