I'm feeling bummed. Actually have been feeling bummed a lot lately. Nothing significantly different than a lot of people, I know. Why should I be different? Sigh.
I have become more and more aware of lost time, deprived time, even robbed time. I know that I was pretty busy on things during much of the past year. But now, when I look back, I am not really sure of what I accomplished. (That is a wonderful thought from an admitted overachiever!) Sigh.
The above photo from Back to the Future sums things up so well. Avoid 2020. As an astute person might observe, you cannot go back. We did it. Or more precisely, there are so many things we did not do. To be even more precise, there are a lot of things that I did, but it sure does not feel like it. I can usually look back, go through the past year's calendar, correspondence, etc., and get a good idea of what I may have accomplished during the past year. The product of my work during the past year just seems so paltry. I am conscious not so much of what I did, but that there were so many people, relationships, people important to me - whom I somewhat did not connect with during the past year. How the heck did it happen? But it clearly did. And this really bums me out bigtime.
It does come down to this = and well worth remembering:
Time for some course corrections as we begin to see light through this pandemic. Want to devote a few posts over the next several weeks looking are at how to recover through the pandemic, how to make up for the missed friendships, opportunities, and even times for hope. This objectively classified introvert really missed people! Not sure what I will find - but I want to try. Why not think about this for your own life as well? I think that a lot of us need to do this.
Can we reap the harvest of this past year? We must.
I'm going to increase the number of my blogs over the next few weeks to explore some of the things raised in today's post. Hopefully, this will connect with things that you might have been thinking about as we move towards an end some day to the pandemic.