Meghan Markle opens up about her miscarriage
There is so much going on in life and sometimes we don't find the time or that moment to ask others or ourselves one important question: Are you ok?
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, shared a part of herself that she hadn't shared with many.
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Meghan started her piece by sharing the incident that sparked all of this thinking:
It was a July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table. Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib. After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right. I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second. Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.
Meghan then shared a moment with The New York Times where she recalled a moment last year when Harry and her were finishing up a long tour in South Africa. She states how exhausted she was, with so much going on, and how she was trying to keep a brave face because she was in the public eye.
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Until a journalist came up to her and asked: "Are you OK?”
She answered him honestly, not knowing that what she said would resonate with so many people.
Thank you for asking,” I said. “Not many people have asked if I’m OK.
After her encounter, it sparked a real question that not many of us have been asking. Are we okay?
Meghan goes on to say:
A young woman named Breonna Taylor goes to sleep, just as she’s done every night before, but she doesn’t live to see the morning because a police raid turns horribly wrong. George Floyd leaves a convenience store, not realizing he will take his last breath under the weight of someone’s knee, and in his final moments, calls out for his mom. Peaceful protests become violent. Health rapidly shifts to sickness. In places where there was once community, there is now division. On top of all of this, it seems we no longer agree on what is true. We aren’t just fighting over our opinions of facts; we are polarized over whether the fact is, in fact, a fact. We are at odds over whether science is real. We are at odds over whether an election has been won or lost. We are at odds over the value of compromise.
We are definitely adjusting to a new normal where everything may seem okay and fine but isn't, where smiling and faking it until you make it is the norm, but is that really helping us as people?
For the first time, in a long time, as human beings, we have reached a point where we are seeing each other. But that still shouldn't stop us from asking ARE YOU OKAY? Because those words could go a very long way...