Still Standing

A journal entry about surviving 2021…

Photo collage by author

I’ve been seeing a plethora of TikTok videos recounting people’s highlights for the year 2021 — a picture for each month. As I sat trying to make sense of the year for myself, it came together less like a highlight reel and more like an amalgamation of traumatic life experiences piled on top of motherhood, family and work. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. It is less nuanced or poetic than I’d…