Don't travel.
Don't touch your face.
Don't leave your house.
Don't hang out with your extended family.
Don't eat dairy. (ok I threw that one in there but) LOL....for real no joke. Don't.
So many Do not do's.
Where do we start with what we can do?
Crippling poverty now. Anxiety provoking lockdowns. Sick people. People who need life saving operations. People who show up at hospitals and 36 hours later are on ventilators.
People who are taking the spots of people who have been waiting for weeks and months for cancer removing surgeries. Women who had been offered a double mastectomy who now are only being offered an outpatient lumpectomy.
Fucksakes.
The reach of Covid is so much greater than you'd initially imagine. It affects health care in a way you can't comprehend. Babies being born without family. Access for midwives reduced. People dying alone. Access for families deminished. People with chronic illnesses finding themselves without regular care. If you find yourself in the hospital it's just you in there. NO one is coming to visit. It's no joke.
Covid totally stole my cancer thunder this year; however, it gave me a new prespective. I say that kind of jokingly but it really is true. Try being diagnosed with advanced cancer just as covid hit.... It wasn't easy, but I think it gave me a unique outlook.
How do I look at potentially catastrophic circumstances?
How does a person decide what matters more?
When it really comes to life and death especially at Christmastime....
My opinion is this....
You have to decide what matters more.
You have to be diligent in your circle of contacts. You have to be smart and aware about how you feel and what you do.
After that you need to LIVE. You can't shut down and let this oppresive situation define your behavior.
You need to enjoy your life.
You need to get a Christmas tree and bake cookies and keep your distance if you must but you can visit your family and friends from a distance with a mask, you can zoom, you can stop by outside in your snow suit. You have to modify.
But it's not the end of the world.
We do this for people like me, like my Dad who just had a kidney removed, for my neighbour's 2 year old who is immunocompromised. We keep our distance. But we can still feel love and joy.
It's going to be different, but for me....life has been so different that now adjusting to changes is the new normal.
We can grow from this. We can become stronger, we can find new ways to share our love with eachother, we can find new ways to interact.
This year more than ever we need to share our joy. To light our homes and our hearts. To believe in health and recovery.
We need to find the strength within ourselves to survive.
Overcoming struggle, improving ourselves and caring for our neighbours and familes more.
We are evolving.
That's what life is all about.
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