Resources or Resourcefulness?
It’s fascinating to watch the world right now and where people go. It takes SERIOUS focus not to let the complete slow down go to your head, but just like everything else: you always get to choose how you react to things.
Never ever in my whole life did I think it would be PRACTICAL to stay in bed until 9AM. It’s not even easy, but it does help the days not feel quite so long. And sleep is great to help slow the anti-aging process — at least that’s what I keep getting told.
By the time I can haul myself out to face the day, there are things I used to always do I can’t, others used to want to and now I won’t, and now things I need to to keep some semblance of feeling like a productive human being.
Forgive the gray. The appointments are a lil non-existent right now. But the VIEW is beautiful!
In the digital circles I still run in, some are a safe and sane space, and others make you want to violate social distancing JUST to be able to go slap some sense back into people. It’s funny how some adapt, some never question a thing (not matter how bad the advice may be nor where it came from), and how some just gotta lose their ever-lovin’ minds.
These last few weeks have been extra interesting. They pull us all back to some kind of primitive basic, and force us to choose a perspective. It’s like a fun challenge we see how well can adapt to, right? Well, at least that’s the story I’m telling myself.
Yes – I signed up for Hulu. Yes, I really can stay in bed until 9 thanks to Hulu (I’m not sure I’ll ever get good at sleeping in again), but it’s also forced me to try hard things….
It’s let me look around at people I used to not have time to give more than a passing glance and see if I can’t be helpful. Consequently, meet and learn about new people life otherwise wouldn’t’ have all allowed for.
Now, the “gym” is this big, open, beautiful (albeit a little chilly still) outside space that I always found too hard to conquer. My ankles and knees are slower to get on board than my head was, but we’ll all figure it out.
My family teeters constantly between, “we can try ______________, and we used to like that and it will be FUN” to “so HELP ME if you do that one more time….” But unless its’ the great, “how soon is too soon to polish off the box of strawberry Uncrustables” debate, we USUALLY make the right call.
We’re all focused now on the virus and watching it sweep over geographical regions. Waiting for areas ahead of us to level off so we know what and when to expect more here. In a few weeks, we’ll be focused on the consequences it left behind, and those of us who’ll be facing a very uncertain future because of it.
We have a responsibility to be present right now. It’s joggers and Netflix and microwave meals, but it’s also time together, and checking on each other, and being present with how we come together in the insanity.
We have a responsibility to look at what we HAVE – and that will be our focus very soon. Resourcefulness. We may not have what we had, but we’ll have what we do and it will be time to head out and make the most of it to help everyone from down the street to the other side of the globe have what they need to live useful, safe, and productive lives.
I’m a believer in we get what we NEED, and not necessarily what we want. We got this. Try and laugh at what’s funny – because bless our hearts – some of it is pretty crazy. Then square up your shoulders and be ready to be kind, level-headed and compassionate for all that is to come. We always have enough resources if we’re resourceful. Sometimes it makes us think, work, and get creative. Sometimes it’s a challenge, and a fight. But always: we’re better for having done it.