How are you doing immediately?
Final week was a very robust one for me. Was it for you, too?
Despite the fact that I attempt to restrict how a lot information I soak up, typically the headlines nonetheless discover their manner in — and after they do, they’ll really feel crushing. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking in a manner that leaves you gazing a wall, uncertain of what to do subsequent.
Right here’s what I did:
I cried. I prayed. I donated. I wrote plenty of phrases. I had conversations with my youngsters.
I obtained off social media. I hiked with buddies. I purchased Dean’s French Onion dip (my consolation meals).
I pickled cucumbers. I learn the Bible. I had buddies 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 Evening Further tea (not abruptly).
I wrestled with massive questions. The type that don’t include straightforward solutions.
I nonetheless don’t have these solutions immediately, and perhaps that’s okay. Possibly the wrestling is the work.
As a result of development — actual, deep, trustworthy development — hardly ever feels comfy.
And but, right here we’re. Exhibiting up in small methods. Holding each heartbreak and hope in the identical breath. Making soup and mulling over laborious questions.
One among 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 somewhere else like on this weblog or in actual life. I typically take into account getting off utterly as a result of I’m wondering 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 surprise 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 person. 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. In the event you’ve discovered small methods to remain grounded or related these days, I’d like to know. Let’s hold sharing what helps — it may be simply what another person wants to listen to.
