So for awhile
It was really dark
It was a dark situation
Because nobody wanted to reboot
Amanda’s Heart
Even with all the other reboots going on
And I just thought--
Ugh
Like, I am going to be Amanda
From Amanda’s Heart
For the rest of my life
And, like, with each passing year
Nobody even remembers the show
Then one day
I tweet about climate change
And, uh, I guess it must have been
A slow news day
Because there was an article
All about how
I’m a celebrity who feels passionately
About climate change
And, um, I do feel, uh
Well, I wouldn’t have said ‘passionately’
At the time
Now I do, obviously
You know what?
I don’t even think I tweeted about it
I think it was a retweet
Of something
Somebody else said
But um--
I noticed
That my Twitter
Like, exploded
I mean, I don’t think
I’d ever gotten
That many likes
And retweets
And my follower count
Went up--by, like, a lot
So, I mean, I did what--
Um, what I think anybody would do
I sort of--went with that
And, uh, started tweeting more
About climate change
And people really responded to it
And it just sort of became my thing
And, uh, to be honest
I wish I had, like, stumbled into something
A little bit easier, because oh my god--
There’s a lot to know
About climate change
And I really didn’t know any of it
Going into all this
Like, there’s a lot of science
And the science is always changing
And I keep reading articles about it
But there’s all this information
About tides and stuff
And that is just like--
I mean, it’s like Greek to me
Like I can’t understand it at all
It’s like a dead language, you know?
But I have to
Because now that’s my thing
And, so, like now I’m an advocate
And I have to be, uh, informed
Plus, I keep getting
All these invitations
To appear on shows
Like, talking about climate change
And all I can think is--
Oh my god
Nobody’s asked me to be on a tv show
In, like, years
But I can’t go on one
If I don’t know what I’m talking about
...I mean, I can, but--
It just seems like
I’d really be taking a risk there
Unless I knew what they were going to ask me
And I could look up the answers ahead of time
But if not
I just don’t think it’s a good idea
But the, the, the people suggesting
That, like, this is all dishonest of me
That, like, I don’t really care?
Trust me
I care
I care a lot
I just didn’t know
How much I cared
Until other people told me
How much I cared
But that doesn’t mean
I don’t care
Sometimes you have no idea
How much something means to you
Until you see the value in it
The value in caring
Isn’t that amazing?
I find it really inspirational
To tell you the truth
I just think
That sort of backwards fall
Into, like, actively championing something
Is, like, truly
Amazing
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