This is my post for #freewriters 2550 prompt a rather dull essay hosted by @mariannewest
One of the things about being a mother is being able to talk to your children even though they are all now adults and ease their minds. I have always been able to do this, except this time. This time I am at a loss for words. I can not tell them that everything is going to be alright, I can only say I do not think they will be as bad as the thoughts going through their minds.
I have one child, who wants to move to Maine because if "IT" does hit the fan, she can go to Canada, these were her words. A Son sounds as if he has given up on mankind, this hurts because he was the most caring person you could meet, he is always ready to help someone in need and his giving up, hurts me. One daughter can't stop crying because she thinks women are going to lose all their rights and become slaves to men.
It is hard for me to talk to them when I feel so defeated, but I try my best, my heart hurts because I can not comfort them. If I could find the words I would write them down but I think my words would be perceived as a rather dull essay rather than words of encouragement.
I do not think the things they worry about are going to be as bad as they think they will be, but I am not naive enough to think everything will stay the same or be better than they are now. I think things like the poor and middle class will suffer more, prices will rise more than they are now, so my best advice is to start trying to save what money you can save now. But things like gays being rounded up and sent to some deserted area and women becoming slaves, I do not see this happening.
He might have said that he could grab a woman by her pussy and make her do anything he wants. Well, I have news for him, I am sure that I am not the only mother who raised her daughters to be strong independent women and they know that men might control the world, but when it comes right down to it, a woman has a way to control their man and they are not afraid to use it. So I do not see women here in the States becoming a slave to any man. I told my daughters this but I feel it has landed on deaf ears, they are still so scared of the future.
There is an old saying that goes like this.
When a clown moves into a castle the clown does not become king the castle becomes the circus.
photo is mine