New and different

Chapter 62

What life are you building in the new COVID world? I bought a house, got my wife back from our coronavirus enforced separation, moved to a different state, starting a new job, slept great on a new (different) bed, driving new and different roads, new scenery, new possibilities, new friends and neighbors, and new risks, new problems, new challenges, new things to resolve with different people and so much more. It would take a book to write down all the changes that could and are happening. 

Is it stressful? Oh heck yes! Am I handling it poorly? Often! Are we frustrated? Very much! Is this for everyone? Absolutely! The alternative is for you to stay in your historical circle and complain that things are not the way that they were before, assuming you liked that better than the way things are now. Of course you don’t have to move and buy another or different house in order to decide to build a better life in the new COVID world. You can do this right where you are, although the scale will be different than what I took on with a new house and a different job.

But you can try new foods out at home while you experiment with cooking new dishes. You can try different routes to work. You can choose to talk to different people while at work. You can listen to different stories than you did in the past. You can stop watching the “news”. You can read instead. Read widely and make sure it is non-political stuff. You can stop doomscollling on the internet. There are a thousand more decisions you can make to have and make a different life for yourself in the new COVID world. You don’t have to move to Pennsylvania to do it.