People are dead…and we’re pissy about not going outside?
How dare we mourn our inconveniences when there were whole lives lost, right?
And yet whether we shut down the conversation or not, a most definitive frustration, negativity, and general feeling of depression exists among many people who (one could argue) have “no right” to feel anything but grateful for what they DO have. How do we navigate privileged problems?
The presence of COVID-19 all over our world has made an average week feel like an apocalyptic movie – our grocery stores have been ransacked, our travel has been cancelled, and America’s dad Tom Hanks has even been diagnosed. How do we balance staying informed with feeling overwhelmed? And what do our “future” ghosts have to do with handling the current (and often scary) situation at hand?
It can be a terrifying to realize that holding onto the things we love is like grasping water that just keeps running through our hands – fruitless. They will change, and eventually all of it will go.
But this doesn’t have to strike us with fear of what we’ll lose – instead it can be this insanely profound gift.
Because how holy and sacred is all this stuff we actually have today, right?
The man who had looked like a funky hippie from afar looked pretty sketchy and creepy up close. His body had a strange tick and some teeth were missing; though the years have dulled my memory, I specifically recall that his eyes had this terrifying look – a look that we all register deep down in our animal body. Is this what it means to be certain?
I’ve never had as many people unsubscribe from my blog as I have in the past few months – we’re talking some big digits - it’s been wild.
Seeing that I’d lost subscribers was something that used to get me really down– it made me think: “Did I offend them? Overwhelm them?” Or the highest offense in my book…“Was I boring?”
Turns out, I was on the exact right track…
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