My COVID long hauler symptoms have really been rampant this past month… extreme fatigue, brain fog, and memory loss. It has been almost a year and I am still dealing with it.
What is interesting is that I keep thinking how some people are so over this pandemic that the compassion for those still experiencing side effects is almost non-existent. Yet what I am learning is it does not really matter how we have all been impacted — we ALL have been impacted in some way and we all need to slow down and “see” each other.
It felt like in March 2020 we actually saw each other — our crazy pets, our kids and spouses and the inside of our homes. We saw the humanity in each other during lockdown and offered each other different ways of coping with something most of us had never experienced before. We were in it together.
We are still are still dealing with the pandemic but I have seen the compassionate resilience wane. People want to get on with their lives, they want normal, patience and empathy are disappearing quickly, but what does that really look like and mean?
I do not want to go back to the way I lived before. I want the precious time I am getting with my family, to work when when I am inspired and that it is not always set by a clock or rigid schedule. I want to see others and see them in a way that what we all are going through actually matters.
If we do not come out of this changed then we have learned nothing.
What do you think?
