Just Another Corona Blog Post

Unless you live under a rock or in Turkmenistan, you probably are aware that the world is a little bit different. Soon it is going to be a whole lot more different. Mother Nature is out playing while we are inside praying.

There is a lot of talk about taking this time to be better. To focus on the things we could not focus on before. There is this pressure to be something more when we come out of this but the fact is, some of us (more than we probably will admit) are struggling just to deal with the day in hand. And that to me is ok. These are unprecedented times and there really isn’t a handbook to guide us through it. We just need to take it on the the best way we can and push through knowing we will get through this. It is a very positive claim but if human nature is anything to go by, the track record speaks for itself.

Loneliness scares me. It is quite hard to admit but there isn’t much denying of it at the moment. I am super grateful for my family that is within reach and the friends who allow me to check in with them and in turn check in with me. In fact I am interacting with people who maybe I would not have in the past because we didn’t have the time do so. I do hope that some of these new relationships last post-Corona but even if they don’t, my mind is telling me that at least you got to know them, even just for a brief moment in time. I have had a history of relationships that maybe have only had a short life expectancy and some of those have ended abruptly and sometimes even painfully.

There is a pressure to make the most of this time and do something with ourselves but that time also tends to play havoc on our thoughts. One of the easiest (and acutely painful) things to do is to think about the past and future and forget about the present. Even this post has been put off because I simply put things off for tomorrow as today I was worried about yesterday.

The light at the end of this tunnel is a small speck that sometimes deceivingly brightens and fazes out. But no matter the size, and no matter what we are feeling, don’t lose sight of that light.

The one thing that I have felt the urge to do is constantly reach out to people. There are some whom I have not spoken to for a very long time and some who I have accepted will not reply and that’s ok. We can all assume that we all have the time to reply but maybe we aren’t just in that space to do so. Something that if we can accept we can even be more present for the people we care about.

As the title goes, this is Just Another Corona Blog Post but it really isn’t. It is a self-conscious confession of my dealings with it and the impact it is having on me.

I get asked how I am doing and at the moment, this is by far one of the toughest questions to answer. Your mood, the time of day, and how honest you want to be is a quick juggle of what you want your answer to be. And there also times that we may fib a bit just to keep the spirit of the person asking the question alive.

So if you are ever feeling a little bit lost or at a state of flux, just reach out to somebody and you’d be surprised at just how close they are to feeling the way you are. Because sometimes we need empathy more than we need sympathy. Now more then ever.

Stay safe and stay at home.