COVID Chronicle #1
Since the start of the pandemic and the lockdown in our state that began with sending kids home from school in March, I knew life would not be normal for a long time. I remember writing journal entries every day as a teenager and probably even before that, but I haven't done any of that since college. Getting married, having children, and moving your parents and disabled brother into a single home will take a lot of time and energy. So I dropped the journaling habit.
This current public health crisis, however, has me wondering if I should return to the habit as a way to order my thoughts and release some of my stress, but I often fear that someone in my household will read it and take it too personally when really it's just about me releasing emotions of the moment. So why write any entries that are on a blog for all to see? I ask this of myself. Perhaps because I know that my family doesn't read my blog at all?
Some things I've noticed during this time, at least for myself, has been a ball of stress carried on my shoulders that I can't seem to release even with yoga and meditation. Whether it's the bills, the school work with distance learning (or maybe not learning) while I'm simultaneously trying to do my full-time job or it's the stress of having six people in the same house day after day with little downtime for myself to be alone and think, I'm not sure. Perhaps it is a culmination of all those things.
What am I hoping to say or accomplish with these posts, which I doubt will be a regular affair? I'm not sure. But I thought I would give this a try and see if others were feeling the same bottled up, ready to explode feeling I have lately or maybe there's some advice...I'm honestly not sure.
Feel free to chime in....