I was heading out for my daily walk, as I am sure many of you do in these times of personal self-isolation, and my neighbour asked me "How are things going, is anyone going stir crazy?" I said things were going as well as can be expected. We talked for a bit, keeping apart and talked about getting back to normal. As I continued on my walk, I thought about what the new normal would like and how we would be feeling. The feelings we most want I don't think are going to come from somewhere new, someone special, or something wonderful.
The new feelings we are searching for are going to come from within, where they now wait for our permission to be released - often in terms of somewhere new, someone special, or something wonderful. Once the pandemic is a distant memory, we will remember our feelings as we think about this time. Our feelings will guide what we remember and what we choose to do in the future. This is the time we have, in self-or family-isolation to try something new, to reach out to someone special and to imagine something wonderful. I hope to see are all doing that, rather than focusing our feelings on worry and becoming irate that we cannot do something new, see someone special or go somewhere special. What are your feelings in this time of pandemic?
'I TOO was heading out for my daily walk ...' .... trying to figure out if I should walk to Marine Drive where it intersects with the Lions Gate Bridge and then go up to Cleveland Dam and home (18K) OR only go so far as the Upper Levels Highway, west side of Capilano River to Cleveland Dam and home (Lonsdale and ULH) and save 4K.
ReplyDeleteThe pandemic hasn't touched our family, three generations under one roof, but it has brought out some humour. eg When our sole bread winner, daughter, declared on the phone to one of her associates, she used the phrase, 'ELDERLY parents'. My immediate reaction was to think ......, and then later, much later, I told her: "the age difference between the two of us has always remained the same. I get a year older, you get a year older. If I'm ELDERLY now, then you must be, what, overnight, MIDDLE AGE? I haven't heard her call us elderly since. But she is still concerned.
She knows what's best for me. Out of the house and walk the 'city streets's, and don't take that the wrong way. There are far more people using the north shore trails now, and most of them drive there, park their cars, and set off on the trails.
The Capilano River trail network is made up of three kilometre (approx) segments, but I spend the bulk of my walking (13K) outside the park just getting there, and back. Social Distancing to a "T".