Today’s post is going to be a brief one and the product of my thoughts as I try to relax after a mentally stressful day. In my last post, I wrote a letter to worriers, and I guess this is an additional note.
It is mind-blowing the things we uncover when we examine events in retrospect. The craziness, regrets, joyful moments, sadness, loss suffered, and wins celebrated; all serve to remind us we are in the journey called life. This year’s phase of the journey has been doubly difficult.
I sit back sometimes in the quiet of the night and reminisce about how life has been this year. How we went from trending song and dance challenges to fighting for our lives in the light of police brutality and to the deaths and entire overhauling of everything we considered normal by the corona virus.
Covid-19 is real and is likely to continue well into 2021. That is a reality that isn’t going away anytime soon. Sadly it may be the new normal in the sea of craziness we have been tossed into. We can decide to let these circumstances, however unplanned they may be, affect our quest for optimal living or choose instead to create/find happiness in the little things.
The year 2020 is fast coming to an end, and soon, we will be ushering in a new year. This goes to show that your plans have got to change in adaptation to the new reality.
Life doesn’t have to remain as we have known it.
It is time to self-reflect and make plans for the coming year. I know a lot of persons believe that expectations should not be had in order not to jinx the year. But come on, past experiences should not hold us back from hoping for better outcomes.
This does not mean those bad days won’t come gate-crashing with all their might or bad things will stop happening to good people. No. They definitely will, and we need to plan for situations like this so that we never let the negatives suck the joy out of living.
Despite everything, I hope that we all have renewed strength to face whatever life throws at us without losing ourselves or our happiness. Until then, I wish you well as we countdown together.
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Love,
Diane
