And while that’s great news, most of us will probably never get this slower pace of life to meet our true selves. Not until we are grey and old, anyway. The COVID-19 pandemic is a once in a lifetime kind of situation. Life will go back to normal once a cure is found and we will become busier than ever to make up for all the lost time. Let’s use this time to be aware of and connect with the person we are right now. It would be a shame to not get to know our changing selves, to not unravel desires that we have suppressed subconsciously due to social conditioning. Come to think of it, quarantine or no quarantine, we are all we have every second of every day. It will get messy, but it will be worth it. Most importantly, I will grieve instead of being positive because “the new normal” is horrific. Basically, I intend to be honest with myself to know quintessential stuff like how I am feeling, if I am doing something inauthentic just to fit in, whether I have some new issues or aspirations that I need to explore, etc. I am going to spend some quality time writing in my diary.
How do I plan to find myself? By tuning out the chaos in the world with the one thing that makes me feel alive: writing. I for one think you and I deserve to know ourselves in an organic manner. You have experienced this too – I am sure of it. Call it a side effect of living in a modern, dizzyingly fast-paced world, but I typically get to know a new aspect of myself only because of some adverse situation. Even though I do not subscribe to insidious hustle culture, my pre-Coronavirus lockdown life was much busier than I would like it to be. It was probably due to my mind being less occupied than usual. The thought that it’s been a while since I have connected with the latest version of myself entered my head by itself. This realization only hit me earlier today, while I was having a rather leisurely cup of coffee. Think about it: when was the last time you had an honest conversation with yourself? If you think you know who you are, well, all I can ask you is, “Which version of you do you know?” Aren’t we all mentally changing, even if only a little, from month to month and year to year?īefore you think I am some spiritually evolved being, I will be the first to declare that I am far from it. It’s the glaringly obvious yet widely overlooked move of getting to know who you are. No, what I am talking about is something far more important than career and self-improvement. Times are tough enough without that kind of pressure.
BEING STUCK AT HOME FREE
Just to be clear, I am not pushing the “make the most of your free time by learning something new” aka be productive cliché that most people are endorsing these days. Sadly, things are not going to go back to how they were anytime soon, so we might as well make the best of it, right? No, I am not going to get all preachy on you.
So you are stuck at home like the rest of the world and are probably aching to go out like you used to.
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