I have to admit, I was getting triggered seeing all the posts about extra time for baths, meditation, learning to knit, or even watching “all of netflix”. I keep thinking, “you must not have kids.” As a household with two remote working parents, our work has not paused, yet we’re suddenly without school, nanny, or any childcare. I was feeling bad for myself.
Then it occurred to me, any time you’ve got tough circumstances and you’re envying/resenting people who have it easier, take a step back and recognize you’ve got the enviable/resentable circumstances from someone else’s perspective.
So I have turned my lens on all the people for whom social distancing does not mean extra time for arts & crafts, it means: how will I survive without income? How can I report to my job at the grocery store when my kids can’t go to school? How will I survive if my home health aid stops showing up who helps me with toileting, showering, and opening the can to make soup?
If quarantine means time for rest and turning inward for you, be in gratitude and, without feeling guilty or diminishing your gratitude, think on others with a more complicated burden under these circumstances. Help where you can.
