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ARTWORK: Natasha Tareen
buddhism and big mouth on pandemic grief BY WILL SALKELD There was a post floating around the Instagram story-sphere during the sad boy hours of the first lockdown which talked about the invisible grief young people faced during the pandemic. It was one of those Tumblr-like text posts which said something along the lines of: …The trip abroad during uni break, our graduations, 21st birthdays and all rites of passages have disappeared overnight. We have lost them, and we are grieving. We are unable to verbalise this grief because it seems insignificant in the scale of suffering we’re seeing in the world. Fuck. The post made perfect sense and expressed how myself and my friends were feeling at the time. A pandemic stripping away the privileges of adventures and moments that define your youth does have a way of getting you down. With this grief laid down on the table you have to pick your next move.
