Published on Facebook, the moving letter that Kim Lévesque Lizotte sent to her daughter following Donald Trump’s victory quickly went viral on social networks.
In her long text, written 5 hours ago, and already “liked” more than 1,500 times, Kim Lévesque Lizotte speaks to her daughter Margot, asking her to keep hope.
“I will tell you that history has seen worse and recovered from it, only to return to it over and over again, but finding a way to keep going.
I will tell you that the earth continues to turn and that we are even lucky to live where we live.
I will tell you that you might have the chance to live in a kinder world when you turn 20. The story oscillates between peace and wars, tensions and respites, horror stories and truces. Let us hope for happy reversals and swings of the pendulum towards tolerance and humanity that are being reclaimed.
I will tell you that there remains beauty through the horrors. I will tell you that there remains love through this violence.
I will tell you that I am more afraid for you than for myself. I will tell you that I will make our lives a refuge where life is Bella. I will tell you that we will live in hope of better days, in the depths of our love and our values, always with our hand outstretched towards the other,” writes the screenwriter.
She asks her little daughter to continue to smile, to cover her ears for a few years, “to better hear the inner goodness that resides in you and that the future will need” and to continue to dream.
“And that’s all we have left.” It’s about loving yourself,” she adds.
Several subscribers and personalities from Quebec have commented on or re-shared this touching letter including the writer India Desjardins, the actress Catherine Renaud (Indéfendable) and the singer Stéphanie Bédard who wrote:
“Oh that you express what I feel better than I do. Thanks Kim. I would like this bad dream to pass and for us to finally wake up… I feel helpless to see this wall into which we are collectively heading. We don’t all have the same logic, I imagine… but at the same time, I try to tell myself that perhaps something beautiful will emerge from it? »
