Tips and Reflections - Week three

So a third week is almost finished, the world is both unusual and familiar at the same time and the personality split is more pronounced!

Tips

Find ways to help. Do it for purely selfish reasons if you don’t feel the altruistic drive because that would give you a feeling of positive action. Something within your control that you can drive in whichever way you want. 

Alternatively, 3 weeks staying home and not knowing when or if you can step out of the house, what world will be waiting for you when you do is enough to drive the strongest of us up the wall (metaphorically and literally) 

The unique nature of this pendemic is that in every corner, in every country, civil society is coming into its own. Whether governments acknowledges that or not, they’re unable to meet the basic needs of a significant section of the community and they’re relying on volunteers and civil societies to fill the gap. 

From dropping shopping, to maintaining spread sheets and answering phones, from sawing masks and medical gowns to cooking meals, there is something for everyone. 

We’re surrounded with negativity and dwelling in feelings of incompleteness will just add to the mental strain we’re all facing. So take action and find how you can help. Facebook and local council sites is a good starting point! 

Reflections 

Shared experiences, for me, this week has been themed around shared experiences bring the best of art, music, dance and performing to the masses. 

Experiences that have previously been the privilege of the few has been shared by millions with free performances streamed live all over the world. 

There is something so powerful when you realise that you’re joining 2 million people watching a repeat of the nutcracker by Bolshoi or 3.9m listening to a live performance by Andrea Bocelli. 

The simple things, often overlooked and underrated till today. Forgotten experiences that filled us with joy when we were young, seem to come back and fill us with joy today. I remember the first time I had the seed to seedling experience we all tried at school. The astonishment when seeing a dried pulse sprouting leaves and growing into a full plant. 

This week, by sheer confidence, I ended up with a repeat with an apple seed. Surprising and fragile as anything, the green shoots grew over a few days at such a speed.

 There was something that touched a deeper feeling seeing the growth, the fragility and the change that small seed played over the past couple of days. Maybe, a hopeful glimpse of a future where I tell others where that apple tree came from. 

Hope or wishful thinking, death and redirection 

Happy Easter, Stay safe