With the onset of the coronapocalype, there’s a lot to grieve. Some of us are losing our livelihood, others our social lives, and a significant number will be losing friends and family members to the virus. Life as we know it has turned completely upside down, and with each day comes an ever-changing reality.
Sometimes I catch myself getting upset over silly things, like the fact that I’m missing out on perfect ski conditions or that all the great concerts I bought tickets to will be canceled. When I find myself in these thought loops, I try to remember the things I can be immensely grateful for: I’m in relatively good health, I have stable housing and enough monetary privilege to stock up on food, I have a job that I can continue through videochat, and I just happened to stock my house with toilet paper before I even knew about the coronavirus.
I look toward the people I’m connected with on social media, and I take in their amazing offerings: one colleague is offering free therapy sessions, another is grocery shopping for the immunocompromised, a third is organizing a virtual women’s circle.
And I remember that our external circumstances do not define us. We can choose to show up creatively with what we are given, and I choose to focus on the gifts that are revealing themselves. The choice is yours.
