Now that I've got all kinds of time to cook and to deep clean, I can think of nothing else that I'd like to do less. Why is that? I was desperate for few hours just a couple of weeks ago so I could continue my spring cleaning mission and now that I can do it I'm feeling too depleted. Two weeks ago I distinctly remember complaining about how FAST the weeks were flying by. I blinked and it was Friday...AGAIN, and again. It's been two days since the kids officially were let off school, one day since the store shut to the public, and if you told me it had been month, I'd say, "feels about right". Time is dragging by so. so. slowly.
But today I tried to be positive. The reality is, the kids are officially off school 6 weeks. We're all on lock down for realistically 2-6 weeks. It feels like an eternity. It does genuinely feels that way, but in reality it isn't. I'm not saying it won't feel painstakingly slow, but big picture, it's not that long. Other good news is that this is an election year, which means there is a lot of pressure on the government to get this economy jumpstarted as soon as the virus is under control. It will happen. Third good thing is that there are some incredible doctors spread out over this entire globe that are working tirelessly to come up with an anti-viral and a vaccine. It will happen, anti-viral trials are already underway for whats seemed to work so far. There are too many smart people working on it for it not to happen quickly. Fear & panic is the problem,
So those were the positives I tried to focus on. I also did an online yoga class, which was better than I thought because my favorite guy was teaching it. That made me happy. His whole theme of the class was "get to know yourself". I had to actively push out the voice in my head that started out by saying, "I know myself, I'm a basket case who is literally flipping out that her kids are off school for 6 weeks and I can't go to yoga". I pulled myself together and tamed my monkey mind at least a little.
I went on a walk with John, and we came across this marquee which I thought was fitting, it read "Same Current, Different Boats". That sums it up. I also read later on some other billboard. the phrase, "focus on what you can control" which I thought was pretty fitting too. Yes, we can only focus on what we can control, and let go of things out of our control.
On a final note, Gia was saying today she was super scared (and it had nothing to do with the coronavirus, it had to do with some scary movie preview she saw), and Romeo told her, "I don't get scared anymore from things, I just think about unicorns when I get scared and then I'm not scared." Unicorns? Yep, apparently they protect you from being scared. So here's to visions of unicorns.
Today we're doing a deep discount on gifts...mostly because it seems like a swell time to buy someone a gift, AND it also seems like a swell time to buy yourself a gift. Show some love, because we all need it.
Signed, ME {lv}
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