Michelle Obama knows what we're going through in isolation—because she is too.
, “I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression,” the former first lady said. “I’m waking up in the middle of the night because I’m worrying about something, or there’s a heaviness. I try to make sure I get a workout in, although there have been periods throughout this quarantine [when] I just have felt too low.”
There’s the apparent inability by some Americans to not take the pandemic seriously, “almost like there’s a limit to our sacrifice…it was about a month and then we just got tired of the virus,” Obama said. “That’s been disheartening, to see so many people who have grown tired of staying at home because the virus didn’t impact them.”
Then, there’s the “racial strife” in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Mrs. Obama said it was “exhausting” to be “waking up to yet another story of a Black man or a Black person somehow being dehumanized, or hurt, or killed, or falsely accused of something.” On top of that heartbreak, she cited the psychic toll of the Trump administration as another source of pain. “Just seeing [President Donald Trump’s] administration, watching the hypocrisy of it day in and day out, is dispiriting,” Mrs.
Yes, Michelle Obama, the woman who for so many of us embodies an ideal of strength and resilience as America’s first Black first lady, is human too. It’s a powerful statement coming from a woman who is often and unfairly characterized as invincible. Mrs. Obama has been built up as the embodiment of “goals”—including but not limited to “arm goals” and “couple goals”—but her true superpower may be using her platform to be vulnerable and give voice to people’s true struggles.
Long after they’ve left office, people still tend to rely on the Obamas to be our touchstones, to fill the ostensibly vacant role of the first family and plow on as our national parents and comforters. The impulse often comes from a place of love, but it’s nevertheless loaded: expecting and hoping against hope that
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