The cynical optimist

I’ve spent most of this month with a few different ideas for what I wanted this particular post to be about, did I want to talk about it being a year since the pandemic began? or the toll a year of working through the pandemic has taken on essential workers? or a millon other things raced through my mind but none of them seemed perfect, I didn’t know what I could add to the story, if I had anything meaningful to say, so they all fell to the wayside…as did the days of the month.

It’s now the last day of March and I am just going to write and hope there is something that comes out of it worth saying. It’s time as you could have probably told from the title another Stream of Consciousness blog posts!

Anybody who has been reading this blog for awhile knows that I occasionally do one of these when I don’t know what to say; if my brain is tangled in a million little things and I can’t stay focused a lot of the times doing one of these will help me unwind that web and get to the heart of what’s going on and this is definitely one of those times.

Like I mentioned at the start of this we’ve now been living with COVID-19 for a year. Lockdowns in my area started mid-march and everybody’s world was flipped upside down seemingly overnight and we’ve had to learn to adapt to our new lives.

It’s been a strange year filled with uncertainty, fear, division, frustration…but there have also been moments of joy, laughter, love, hope…I’m always reminding myself to put more weight into those moments because those moments persevere longer than any other.

Vaccines are rolling out, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, even if it feels like that light is miles away still. We are making the trek, we are getting through this…We’ve just got to hold on a little longer, so when the light seems like it has extinguished, when we are cloaked completely in darkness. Hold on tight to those moments of light, of love, laughter, hope and joy because it will be those moments that will give you the strength to see it through, at least that’s what I’ve come to learn about myself.