Painting Our Own Silver Lining
“Quarantine would last for two weeks, maybe three” is the joke of the new era. Eight months in, it’s been an uncertain, interesting, crazy, unprecedented, and albeit confusing time.
To be honest, we’ve fully lost sight of time passing. The transition from each day to the next just happens. And it takes a while to realize that we’re already, dare I say it, nearing the end of 2020…wow 10 more Fridays to Christmas! We’re in a phase where everything feels slow and the same, yet time is flying by and the state of the world is so different. What is going on?!
We, perhaps also like you, have felt frustrated about not being in control of our lives and plans anymore—and on some days this feels too true. But now we think it’s time for us to *paint our own silver lining*. This pandemic has given us an opportunity to be present and reflect on what truly matters to us, which very well may differ from what matters to others, and that’s completely okay. By all means, we haven’t figured out how to perfectly prioritize and align what we do each day, with our core values and interests. It’s going to take us a lot of time and a lot of patience. But we are committed—to actively make the effort to discover what we like and dislike, what we are good at or perhaps struggle with, and how we can make a meaningful contribution to this crazy big world.
This morning we digested @Medium’s article “20 Things Most People Learn Too Late In Life” for some inspo. Being in a pandemic and as this article reminds us—life is short. So let’s at least try make it sweeter.
“What is the meaning of life? To be you, all of you, always, in everything you do—whatever that means to you. You are your own creator. You are your own evolving masterpiece.”
