How are you doing right now?
Final week was a very powerful one for me. Was it for you, too?
Despite the fact that I attempt to restrict how a lot information I absorb, typically the headlines nonetheless discover their means in — and once they do, they’ll really feel crushing. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking in a means that leaves you observing a wall, uncertain of what to do subsequent.
Right here’s what I did:
I cried. I prayed. I donated. I wrote a variety of phrases. I had conversations with my youngsters.
I received off social media. I hiked with associates. I purchased Dean’s French Onion dip (my consolation meals).
I pickled cucumbers. I learn the Bible. I had associates over.
I cheered on my youngsters at soccer. I cheered for GT and my Dawgs, too.
I made soup and bread for my household.
I drank pumpkin ciders, took magnesium, and sipped Nighty Night time Further tea (not all of sudden).
I wrestled with massive questions. The type that don’t include simple solutions.
I nonetheless don’t have these solutions right now, and possibly that’s okay. Possibly the wrestling is the work.
As a result of development — actual, deep, sincere development — hardly ever feels comfy.
And but, right here we’re. Displaying up in small methods. Holding each heartbreak and hope in the identical breath. Making soup and mulling over laborious questions.
Certainly one of my private struggles is with social media. It’s a spot I like to indicate up and share life’s minutia, like a private FaceTime with a buddy, however there are occasions when nameless critics come out simply to fire up rage and create division. It’s one thing I hardly ever discover elsewhere like on this weblog or in actual life. I typically think about getting off utterly as a result of I ponder if we’re all meant to be so entrenched in a digital world that may create a false sense of connection. However then I see sparks of real connection and methods to unfold hope and bits of pleasure and marvel if that makes it value staying?
How do you deal with social media in your individual life? It’s one thing I don’t permit for my youngsters as a result of I understand how addictive and vile it may be and but, I’m a consumer. I wrestle with that.
If final week felt heavy for you too, I hope you discovered your individual small methods to regular your self. To remain human within the face of all of it. To grieve and develop on the identical time. Should you’ve discovered small methods to remain grounded or linked these days, I’d like to know. Let’s maintain sharing what helps — it is perhaps simply what another person wants to listen to.
