I am so impressed with the collective resilience I am seeing as we move through these uncharted waters of COVID-19 and safe-at-home evolutions. I am seeing people who live with anxiety using all of their skills to calm both themselves and others. I am seeing new and soon-to-be moms move through hard feelings about what they expected pregnancy or life with an infant to be and the reality it is turning into. I am seeing (and feeling) the multiple pressures on parents to work, parent, educate, and remain sane and productive – and we keep doing it, day after day, sometimes even finding the humor in it.
I am hearing almost everyone I talk to saying “Yes, this is hard for me and has totally turned my world upside down, but I know that it is worth it to protect others - and I know that so many have it so much worse than I do.” What an amazing mix of feelings to be able to hold all at one time. We are, as a society, putting our own (what we thought of as) basic needs on hold for the presumptive good of people more vulnerable, and all the while trying to keep perspective on our privilege in the face of total chaos and uncertainty.
Think about what power we all hold, if we can keep it as we move forward from this, to reassess what we “need” and to keep focused on our place in the world, without knowing what is to come. There is ambiguity in it, no question about that. But maybe there is beauty in the ambiguity, if we can find the meaning in what we are doing. It makes living this way a practice of letting go of the outcome, just doing our best, in solidarity with others.
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