Chapter 38

The loveliest of days are September and May days. Spent with great friends on a shaded terrace eating great food, have fantastic conversations. There has been a huge deficit of those kinds of days in everyone’s lives since Coronavirus showed up. And that was about six months ago. Things have never been worse nor better. Yep that’s right, that’s what I said. My friends that I had lunch with have basically had an excellent business startup, and the restrictions of Coronavirus has only helped them do this. I have had six months of basically no travel and I am much healthier for it. But there has been a huge deficit of great friends on terraces enjoying great food with super views. The best and the worst of days.

But how is this any different than any other time in our lives? It just is. And what we make of it always determines the outcomes. Coronavirus made some of us more entrepreneurial. Coronavirus made some of our jobs so difficult that we are changing jobs as soon as possible. Coronavirus gave great gifts to some of us, and cost others a great deal. Coronavirus made easy things hard and hard things easy. It limited us in some ways and set us free in others. It cost us more in some ways, and gave us great gifts in other ways. It bound us in a certain fashion and it released us in others. It created stress for extroverts and peace for introverts. It destroyed some systems and patterns, and forced the creation of other systems and patterns. Most of all it has changed and impacted how we communicate and spend time with people. Everyone handles that well, with a different degree of finesse. The point is, you control the finesse.