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My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 4.10

Richard The Chwalek
3 min readApr 10, 2021

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Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash.

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COVID is scary. Vaccines are scary. Reality is scary…

Individual choice is the scariest, because then it is my fault.

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Quit wearing a mask, a seatbelt, a helmet…

Why live if you can’t increase the likelihood of your death?!

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With all the conspiracies out there, I have become so paranoid…

That I fear my mind may be recording everything I am thinking.

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We cannot overcome our fears if we continue to fear…

Overcoming our fears.

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I was once a QAnon devotee

Then I got potty trained, began wearing big boy underpants, and finally quit sucking my thumb.

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When I first met a person of color, I found out I was a color too…

Being in the White skin category does not mean an absence of color, it just means we often pretend we…

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Richard The Chwalek
Richard The Chwalek

Written by Richard The Chwalek

Mostly serious stuff w/ bits of sarcastic fluff. I wish more could be told yet bios have room 4 short & bold. You’ll see less length isn’t my greatest strength.

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