I'm Thinking of Reading a Book 💁🏻‍♀️

On 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was arrested for buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. About ten minutes after the employee reported the illegal transaction, two police officers found George Floyd with two friends in a car close to the grocery store. After having been targeted with a gun and having been handcuffed, George Floyd resisted entering the police car. This is when Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer, arrived at the scene and in his attempt to put him inside the car, he caused Floyd to fall on the ground. Then, Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd's neck and kept it there for about nine minutes although bystanders were filming him and Floyd himself was stating that he couldn't breath. At some point, Floyd lost consciousness and after he was transported to a hospital, he was announced dead. All four police officers present during this incident were fired but Derek Chauvin is charged with second-degree mu...

The new decade hasn't been as full of hope and bliss as many of us hoped it would be. The rapidly spreading Coronavirus has been the main concern in most people's minds all over the world. And it makes sense as many people have died because of it. The measures governments enforce are getting stricter and stricter as the days go by.

Let me start by saying that I am not a very religious person in the traditional sense of the word; I rarely go to church and I rarely fast or pray. However, I do believe that there is a god. In other words, I don't really believe in the institution but I believe in a greater power that watches over us and our actions on this earth can determine our afterlife journey. You may or may not have guessed my religious beliefs but I don't think that there is any point in stating them. But let me expand on that.