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?
