Growing up, Evanston resident Catherine Johnson would beg her mother and grandmother to tell her stories about their family. But they didn’t tell her much. As a Black family that moved to Evanston during the Great Migration, their stories of coming north weren’t happy ones, she said, and her family didn’t typically share stories of.
“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.”
This infamous line was in reflection of Shelby’s wish to have a child, even at the risk of her own life. This decision also expresses, how in life we will inadvertently, hurt the ones we love based off matters from the heart. We are willing to love so hard, that we will put our own relationships with family and friends at risk. Often at times not knowing, what we will truly lose if it goes awry. Everyone is after, their own “Happily Ever After”.
What if we became the reason that somebody chose to never love again?