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To Do Before Emerging from the Corona-Cocoon
Discovering the heavily-disguised blessings of lockdown
Liz Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, remarked in an interview with TED’s Chris Anderson that she’d noticed that the way her friends perceive life post-coronavirus tracks exactly to how they perceive life the rest of the time: the dystopians predict a dystopian future reality, and the utopians foresee a utopian one.
The truth is, none of us will have a lot of influence over what the world looks like as we slowly start to emerge from our corona-cocoons and creep back towards some kind of normality, but we do have a whole load of influence over what our individual world looks like.
Maybe some people want things to go back to how they were pre-lockdown, and if that’s where your head is, all well and good. If your personal world wasn’t broken, don’t fix it.
I have a different perspective. My world before wasn’t broken, exactly, but I also don’t think it can go back to being the same, and I wouldn’t want it to. I choose to be changed by what has happened these last few months.
Same Old or Different New?
Not everybody likes change. I absolutely love it. When I get to the end of a year, or a volume of my journal, I want to be able to look back and see how far I’ve come. I see…
