Keeping (relatively) calm and (attempting) to carry on!
Happy May everyone! Bloody hell, it's May already. I hope you all are feeling and doing well, despite all the madness that is currently happening in the world. No matter where you are, I hope you are keeping safe and feeling well in yourself and the situation around us.
I think most of us can agree that life right now feels surreal in the most terrifying way as if we are stuck in some sort of dystopian-apocalypse novel (minus the zombies or meteors...for now). There is so much uncertainty around us and that in itself is hard in the best of times, let alone in the middle of a global pandemic. However, I hope that this post can help lift the heaviness, even if it is only for a second, as these little bits of light is what keeps all of us going, I guess. Like my best friend once said: there is goodness in even the worst of days, you just have to be willing to find it.
If I am going to be honest, I wasn't sure whether to post this article or not, going back and forth between if it will or won't be useful to those who wish to read it, before I remembered something. When I created this blog 5 years ago - blimey I feel old! - I wanted to not only share my writing and my mad thoughts with the world, but this blog was also the start of me feeling confident in my own skin. Writing has always been a cathartic process for me, a way to express what I'm really feeling. And if there was ever a time to do a little thing for myself, it probably should be now! Though I also hope this helps whoever reads this gets something out of my writing too, even if it is just to pass the time between lunch and dinner, or an excuse to cut 5 minutes off your home-workout.
As strange as it sounds, I think it is more important than ever to help each other out from in our own homes, whether you know them or you don't. I might not be the Blair Waldorf of my family, but I definitely miss seeing my friends and having a chat. Even though having video calls might not be the real thing, it is so nice to hear a familiar voice and laugh at the end of the phone. I mean, if it wasn't for lockdown, I would have never unearthed the joys of winning a popular culture trivia game or reveal to my friends how bad I really am at drawing over the phone! (I may have cheered a bit too loudly when I won by one point. I apologise to those who had to witness that in person!).
Though I know that the reality of things for all of us is mainly a tough experience, and one we have all had to learn to cope with in our own ways. Whether you are an NHS employee or a police officer, working for postal and delivery services, working from home or struggling to find work, everybody is trying to plough on as best as we can, some more so than others. As great as it is to see people learning to paint each other over Instagram or training to be a bodybuilder with just tins of tomatoes and an old drainpipe, it might make you feel like you are not being "productive enough" if you aren't using quarantine as a journey into your inner self, or to find a new hobby.
To anybody who needs to hear this, I just want to say this: you are being a fighter, just by waking up today.
For washing your face and opening the curtains, changing out of your current pyjamas into clean ones or making a meal for you and your family. Because these small actions may seem like nothing, they are actually huge steps in a time like this. Some of us are just trying to survive this limbo, let alone trying to keep ourselves occupied. It is totally okay to feel tired, low, unmotivated and downright bored, because very soon, we will all get to the end of quarantine, and when we get there, we will all be so proud of ourselves, simply because we got there. We got to the end and meandered through the blur of days and weeks, stayed away from friends and family for both your and their safety, and basically had our lives distorted for a quite a while. And as cheesy as this sounds, like any completed challenge, we get to reward ourselves with the greatest prize we could dream of right now: the people we love.
I am sending my love, well wishes and strength to you all. I know we can do this!
Take care and stay safe,
E x
I think most of us can agree that life right now feels surreal in the most terrifying way as if we are stuck in some sort of dystopian-apocalypse novel (minus the zombies or meteors...for now). There is so much uncertainty around us and that in itself is hard in the best of times, let alone in the middle of a global pandemic. However, I hope that this post can help lift the heaviness, even if it is only for a second, as these little bits of light is what keeps all of us going, I guess. Like my best friend once said: there is goodness in even the worst of days, you just have to be willing to find it.
If I am going to be honest, I wasn't sure whether to post this article or not, going back and forth between if it will or won't be useful to those who wish to read it, before I remembered something. When I created this blog 5 years ago - blimey I feel old! - I wanted to not only share my writing and my mad thoughts with the world, but this blog was also the start of me feeling confident in my own skin. Writing has always been a cathartic process for me, a way to express what I'm really feeling. And if there was ever a time to do a little thing for myself, it probably should be now! Though I also hope this helps whoever reads this gets something out of my writing too, even if it is just to pass the time between lunch and dinner, or an excuse to cut 5 minutes off your home-workout.
As strange as it sounds, I think it is more important than ever to help each other out from in our own homes, whether you know them or you don't. I might not be the Blair Waldorf of my family, but I definitely miss seeing my friends and having a chat. Even though having video calls might not be the real thing, it is so nice to hear a familiar voice and laugh at the end of the phone. I mean, if it wasn't for lockdown, I would have never unearthed the joys of winning a popular culture trivia game or reveal to my friends how bad I really am at drawing over the phone! (I may have cheered a bit too loudly when I won by one point. I apologise to those who had to witness that in person!).
Though I know that the reality of things for all of us is mainly a tough experience, and one we have all had to learn to cope with in our own ways. Whether you are an NHS employee or a police officer, working for postal and delivery services, working from home or struggling to find work, everybody is trying to plough on as best as we can, some more so than others. As great as it is to see people learning to paint each other over Instagram or training to be a bodybuilder with just tins of tomatoes and an old drainpipe, it might make you feel like you are not being "productive enough" if you aren't using quarantine as a journey into your inner self, or to find a new hobby.
To anybody who needs to hear this, I just want to say this: you are being a fighter, just by waking up today.
For washing your face and opening the curtains, changing out of your current pyjamas into clean ones or making a meal for you and your family. Because these small actions may seem like nothing, they are actually huge steps in a time like this. Some of us are just trying to survive this limbo, let alone trying to keep ourselves occupied. It is totally okay to feel tired, low, unmotivated and downright bored, because very soon, we will all get to the end of quarantine, and when we get there, we will all be so proud of ourselves, simply because we got there. We got to the end and meandered through the blur of days and weeks, stayed away from friends and family for both your and their safety, and basically had our lives distorted for a quite a while. And as cheesy as this sounds, like any completed challenge, we get to reward ourselves with the greatest prize we could dream of right now: the people we love.
I am sending my love, well wishes and strength to you all. I know we can do this!
Take care and stay safe,
E x
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