It’s World Kindness Day.\u00a0 I threw on my “NO Bad Vibes” shirt to remind myself that even if it’s hard, and I don’t feel “happy” we can change the mood.<\/p>\n
I think we need a good dose of happy right now.\u00a0 I think more than ever, we need something good to focus on.<\/p>\n
How are you fighting the negative?\u00a0 How are you fighting back on what doesn’t feel so happy right now?<\/p>\n
My kids put on a few Christmas movies last night.\u00a0 We watched “Home Alone” and “A Christmas Carol”.\u00a0 This morning they were playing a few Christmas songs through the house as we worked.\u00a0 Them on their school work, me on my radio show.<\/p>\n
Normally, I say “wait til December” before we get out the holiday stuff. But this year, we need something to be excited about.<\/p>\n
How are you doing?<\/p>\n
REALLY doing?<\/p>\n
Anybody else feeling really sad right now and a bit overwhelmed?\u00a0 Fighting hard against the bad vibes?\u00a0 Yep. Same, girl same.<\/p>\n
I think of myself as a positive person, but these days it’s a struggle.\u00a0 I’ve been tuning out the world more and more re-watching Schitt’s Creek for the third time.\u00a0 It gets better every time you watch it.\u00a0 “Ewww David”.\u00a0 It’s “simply the best” show for all the best reasons.\u00a0 You want a does of happy?\u00a0 You’ll get it there.<\/p>\n
I miss people.\u00a0 I miss hugging my friends.<\/p>\n
I’ve gone to church now. In the building.\u00a0 And to a Zumba class.\u00a0 Both times, social distance measures in place.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you, but I feel MORE alone in those settings than I do sitting at home by myself all day.\u00a0 To be around people that you care about and not be able to be close or offer a hug to someone is hard.<\/p>\n
I’ve had days I’ve had to push myself to shower and get dressed.\u00a0 Actually WRITING it on my to do list to inspire me to go through with it.\u00a0 \u00a0I never imagined I would still be working from home.<\/p>\n
I think we need more than ever to remember kindness.<\/p>\n
This pandemic has effected each and everyone of us in different ways.\u00a0 Each of us feel it different.\u00a0 Each of us have different ideas of how it should be handled.\u00a0 I see it online and it’s hard to see people react so harshly to others.<\/p>\n
Remember kindness.<\/p>\n
I spent yesterday feeling down and feeling a bit sorry for myself.\u00a0 Missing people.\u00a0 Scared to see the numbers around us climb.\u00a0 Realizing this is far from over.<\/p>\n
Today, I made myself a sugar sandwich and a cup of tea, using my gramma’s teapot.\u00a0 Something I realize isn’t a smart food choice.\u00a0 But it took me back to childhood.\u00a0 When I was young, we would walk home from school for lunch.\u00a0 My gramma would be there, with a sugar sandwich.\u00a0 Or tea biscuits and jam.\u00a0 And a cup of tea.\u00a0 Which was usually more milk than anything. But I love the feeling I get when I repeat it.\u00a0 I still have her teapot, even though she’s been gone for so long.\u00a0 Comfort.\u00a0 In a world determined to take that away.<\/p>\n
It’s hard.\u00a0 So hard.\u00a0 The thought of more restrictions makes me want to cry.\u00a0 I haven’t seen my dad since January.\u00a0 This daddy’s girl misses her daddy.\u00a0 And to be honest, I wouldn’t mind sitting at his kitchen table and letting him be my dad again.\u00a0 Feeling taken care of and safe.<\/p>\n
We need to remember kindness.\u00a0 Even more so when we don’t feel it.<\/p>\n
We need to remember that despite our differences and how we each feel we are still in this together.<\/p>\n
And if we remember kindness, it will be that much easier to get through it.<\/p>\n
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