To a New Dawn: Letters of Solidarity Anthology

CHARLOTTE LANES, 16 To be read in October 2070 Dear Future Self, Is it easier now? You will be reading this as a 66-year-old woman. So, tell me – I’m dying to know – do you still have the crippling, dark, emptiness feeling of being trapped, like you did in 2020? As if you can’t breathe from the comfort of your own home, from being stuck in the same place for months, just so our families could live another day.

I do hope things are better now…

So, is this everlasting war from Covid-19 finally over? If so, who won? Do you now get to have the exquisite taste of freedom once again? Can you finally go into the shops without the choking, thick, warm air from the mask you were forced to wear everywhere you went? Can you finally walk the streets whenever you want to, instead of feeling like a caged animal, like you weren’t allowed out of your cage unless the owner (in our case the Government) would decide to let us out? How is Mum? Did she lose her job like her boss said might happen? Same with people all over our country – did a lot of them lose their jobs too?

How about food? Can you remember when people were panic buying and so there wasn’t really any food or toilet roll in the shops? Did this happen again? Do you remember 48