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…
