“Wherever you are, be there totally.”
Eckhart Tolle
Well, Spidey, you’ve gone all deep on me this week!
The world has chosen to give a huge amount of the population time at home, with this awful pandemic that is raging through so many countries at the moment.
Many of us have been tearing our hair out, worrying about our old normal, our jobs, our families, kids education, getting basic shopping in… nothing has been straightforward.
But sometimes we need some time to sit back and reflect, while we have this new normal – and let’s be honest, it could be our only normal for a while.
Sure, this extended home time was not your choice, but now it’s been foisted upon you, use it for your own wellbeing.
We have been granted time to enjoy life at a slower pace, because if you carry on as you used to, in the old normal, you’d have nothing to do, come lunchtime.
Time to spend with your loved ones. Time to recreate bonds. Time to take up hobbies that you never had time for. Time to appreciate what you do have.
Instead of always being busy on work calls and emails, or social media, use some time to really be there with your kids, or family.
Get the boardgames out.
Talk to each other.
Share a film you really love.
Cook together, eat together.
If you can, go out for a walk together.
If you’re going to call, make it a video call, so you can see the family and friend you are contacting, or use ZOOM!
Live in the moment.
Don’t spend all the time taking pictures of what you are doing, because, you will probably be doing the same for a long while, so your camera roll will start looking pretty repetitive after a week or so!
(Though I have to confess, we have discovered TikTok! That’s a fun family activity! I don’t have a public account as we don’t put the kids out there – though they are getting to the age they’ll be out there themselves soon – but it has been fun making silly videos together!)
Embrace the new normal while you have it. I have a feeling there are certain aspects you are going to miss, when things all calm down…
Or better still, try your hardest to keep them in your life, no matter what normal you are living in.
So… tell me, what aspect of this new normal would you like to keep, when things calm down?
Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps. And enjoy your week! ❤
