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Stop Carrying the Weight of the World
In this crazy timeline, it’s all too easy to pick-up the weight of the world.
In March of 2020, my family gathered at a restaurant to celebrate my mom’s birthday.
The next week, we learned that my sister and niece were living in the next town over from one of the state’s biggest COVID-19 hotspots. The town in which my niece’s aunts and uncles all live.
Upon learning this, I informed my coworkers at my freelance gig that I would be self-isolating and left the office. To all intents and purposes, I never returned to the office to work — and work from home full-time began. Fortunately, nobody in my family got sick.
All-too briefly, the nation shut down. The numbers declined, though not as much as they could have if the shutdown had been longer. Then — the holiday season hit, the schools half reopened, and the numbers started climbing astronomically.
Government intervention might have prevented this from getting to where it’s at now — but they were too busy focusing on an election. And when the current administration lost, they decided to throw a temper tantrum and all-but ignore the rising infection rates and death toll.
You may or may not have been impacted by this pandemic. But between the disease itself and the impact it’s had on our society — the world will never be the same.
For a lot of us — particularly those of us coming from a place of logic and reason — it feels like the whole weight of the world is on our shoulders. I certainly feel like I am holding up a lot of weight in trying to be a voice of reason, logic, and a light in the dark.
But carrying the weight of the world isn’t your job — nor is it mine.
Your world versus THE world
How is your world different from THE world?
Simple. Your world is the itty-bitty expanse of the Universe that revolves around you. And yes, I do mean it revolves around you. This is the life you live, every single day, where you are, right now.
THE world is what you see on the news, across social media, and in the places you aren’t. Happenings of THE world will impact your world…
