Covid-19 Reflections In 2021
These have been the most peculiar seasons in life for most since the onset of Covid-19. Covid-19 has impacted the world and lives of multitudes in all facets of life from the youngest to the oldest. Many have lost life, lost hope, lost perception, lost direction and contrary many have had restored hope, gained new life, gained a new perception and are traveling in a new direction.
The irony is that those on the lost side have difficulty understanding those to the gained side. One might ask, what do the gainers have that the lost do not? Or what does the lost have that the gainers do not? It is all in perception of the one whom is traveling on either side. Those whom lost may be living in a state of perpetual worry, anxiety, sadness, doubt, anger and or resentment. Meanwhile the gainers may be living in constant hope, motivation, gratitude and reflection.
Therapy is a tool and or a vehicle that can help the ones on the lost side to begin to reflect on what Covid-19 characterized that created a perpetual negative space in an effort to begin to see more clearly. It may help the gainers to add to the perception a plan to achieve the plans that they have and may need some support with direction. Either can benefit from therapy because it is designed for a specified timeframe of personal reflection. Therapy can be used for the purposes of identifying a change in one’s perspective and to create a new beginning built on their analysis of what needed change. Covid-19 is not designed to go back to the before because in truth one cannot go back from a place of catastrophic life changing event. Life is evolutionary and is purposed for the benefits of evolving, growing and becoming different somehow. The survivor can to learn to live and learn a new way of life, way of thinking, walking, talking, planning and the list goes on.
Loss is not designed to stop living, it is designed to honor the memory of the loss and define, design or imagine a new path without the loss (loved one, time, space, job, and or a part of self). What do you do when you have an entity rob you of your life’s order? Covid-19 cannot be seen, but it can be felt, it had the invisible power to bring life to a close and shut the door to life as you and or loved ones knew it.
Where were you on your life’s journey when Covid-19 hit your internal home environment? What were you doing? Were you in school (college, H.S. Graduate School, Law or Med School), were you working in a job that you loved or hated? Were you pregnant, planning your wedding, seeking to relocate? Caring for a love one in a nursing home or assisted living community?
Therapy is a vessel to be considered to help you to sort through the myriad of emotions rightfully triggered by the very essence of COVID-19’s many facets. The irony of the extreme loss and the profound growth opportunities and new ventures is the conundrum that causes one to wonder how such contrasts are evident.
Please consider getting into therapy for the purposes of pure clarity concerning your circumference of you life’s existence. Use your therapeutic journey to gain a new perspective and clarity to begin to have a better understanding of yourself in relation to you.
**This is a personal reflection of Covid-19 and is not intended to be the everyone’s experience or perspective. Please know that your experience is relevant and to be cherished.