There is no doubt about how anxious everyone must be feeling with the election right around the corner and the Covid cases spiking higher than they did earlier this year. If we add in the fact that some suffer from depressional seasonal changes, and yes, it is a real thing, this weekend will be a tough one. We must turn our clocks back an hour, losing an hour of evening light which can affect your mood. There are reports that complaints of depressive symptoms increase around 11% right after we set our clocks back for the fall. As if some people need another reason to be depressed……
I’m almost holding my breath and devoid of words until I have a sense of where life is going to take me. I know it will go on and I am still positive it will be fruitful. I just find it difficult to share thoughts now when there are either a million thoughts or the need to stay silent and wait.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Right now, the issues of the world and problems we may face at home look like an elephant. For some, it could be Covid, unemployment, underemployment, financial stress, depression, broken relationships, school, hunger, or any combination of those things and others. The key to tackling the problems is to not concentrate on them all at once although they seem gigantic. Pick one, the most pressing, and get started on a resolution for that and it may help ease the tension in the other areas.
The problems of the world can be resolved too. It is not up to “them”. We are them. We failed in our civic duties and now we live with the consequences of those choices. WE begin to heal by remembering basic decency and human kindness. It all starts within and with us. If I decide to be nice to my neighbors and they make the decision to be nice to others and so on, it will spread like wildfire. It is what we need now, not a civil war.
If you are a part of the problem and not the solution, I pray that you will look deep within yourself to ask what is your endgame?
Have a blessed day, if you have not voted yet, get out and do so!
Until next time, I love you all!
