What a rock and roll time this has been as
we try to change to fit more comfortably into this new way of living. Sometimes, don’t you just feel like it is
hard work to do this?
Pessimism is toxic in that there is only
gloom and doom to be found in such an outlook.
Do things that cause you to be positive, things that uplift your spirit,
those things that bring the best out in you.
Conspiracy theories simply muddy the environment you are in. Stick to only the facts from the highest
expertise and your local experts. Not
many of us are the highest experts. We
have to trust someone. Best to trust
those who are heist qualified in the field.
It is very hard not to be overly sensitive
when we know so little about this virus and there are so many who would claim
to be experts when they are just those with hidden agendas. It is hard enough not to over-think
everything we hear and everything that is said to us. Many chose to have anyone they know feel as
bitter and as fearful as they are. Do
not let them put a wedge in your feelings.
Be careful what we take to heart and try to be a good human being while
you do so. It is hard. We are stressed out…we are either angry
deniers or bitter against rule-makers, or soppy sad sacks for the most part and
this compounds that. We do not need those
kinds of people to judge, criticize, or put us down for how we feel. We all have our opinions. Sometimes we forget to be kind and to
remember we are all stressed and consider whether we add to the stress or be a
balm to it. Try not to take things
personally. Easier said than done, sometimes,
as I have found out, and learned a good lesson from it. Simply get through this and keep to your
values and your sensibilities as best we can.
Many of us have inborn inherited bits of
us that have always been pleasers. This
is rough right now because we might forget to stick up for what we believe, in
a kind and compassionate way. Be who you
are, shadow figure at times, or not. Be
genuine. Our ancestors were able to
survive such things as fear, and here we are.
Sometimes we need to transform and this is one time when change need not
be rebelled against. This is not about
our ‘feelings’, this is about life or death.
We are called to adapt. We can
overcome things. We are female and
conscious. We can do this and not expend
our concerns about our self and ours without giving in to something we just know
does not feel right. God
bless the paranoid and the OCD and the germaphobes because this is going to
require great reining in and healing. Do
not let others make decisions for you amidst all this in that we do not know
enough about this virus and it is best not to give in to what might put us and
ours at risk.
I have sense something in myself that has magnified. I procrastinate and I am procrastinating even
more this last week. I have things I
could, should, would do and I am not. I
have sputtered to near halt after giving everything the positive heave ho. I have long been stress-driven. I would invite people over in order to do
attic to basement cleanup, even areas they would not possible go to. I realize this is compounding and I have to
make myself a list and follow it through.
Later is not an option. Things
are going to get into a rush soon and we will have people to see, places to go
and other things to do. Best I get at
what needs, truly, to be done.
It is also hard not to be judgmental. I find that strange in myself but I do see
it. I need to stay focused on SELF not
others who are not of the same belief, of the same careful, as the same kind as
I am. I cannot afford to gauge what I do
by others standards and vice versa. I
think we need to really channel more micro towards us and ours. This is difficult for me because of all the
other things above, right now.
Whoa re we now? Who were we?
Did we need to change up some things about ourselves? Of course, we are always adapting, learning,
loving and healing. We have
tenacity. We have confidence in ourselves
– we have to have, we have to believe what we are doing is worth it all, and we
can shift and adapt – it is part of being human being. We are responsible for ourselves and others
and this is a time to be globally minded as well. Therein lies the crux of problems that can
hound us like baying dogs. We have to be
self-oriented and yet globally-minded.
How do we do that? Are we who we
are as an isolated being or is the isolation globally-oriented? We know the answers, it can just be confusing
as we have not been just here before.
Take care of you. Take care of yours. Let us keep[ Mother Earth safe. Our Elders said it best to me: We are here to take care of Mother Earth and
each other.
Much love sister-friends in this
crazy-making time.
©Carol Desjarlais 5.20.20
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