Some recent reflections...

...by my one (half British) (half Sudanese) friend (the brother of the brother-sister pair that I'm friends with): 1) When people feel bad for you economically, they often individualize it and take the worsening shape of the economy as-is, and never stop and step back and reflect and say things like, "It's just a shame that we don't pay positions like teachers/social workers/etc. more." 2) He feels so often nowadays that the generations are flipped, where the older generation is feckless and selfish and impulsive, and the younger generation is crying out that we should be wiser and think more for the long-term. 3) "you know one of the things that bothers me about facemasks is that when you are on public transport you can't tell anymore the good muslims (the moderate hijab wearers) from the bad ones (the extremist niqab wearers)."