A BENEFICIAL CHANGE OFTEN COMES FROM A PERCEIVED PROBLEM.

Over the past few weeks some people have started feeling quite hemmed in by the Corona Virus Isolation.  in fact, a cousin of ours in England has started saying, “let us out so we catch the virus, and then life can return to normal again.” I worry about her idea. Seems simple, but also impossible. But what is actually normal? Will our previous definitions of normal ever come back in our lives?

Once something like this happens, and changes in your life occur, it is unlikely that such a massive change will not impact in some ways on us, and not always in a bad way.

Bike riding is one example. Being unable to go to a gym, exercise is always on the agenda and that takes the new form of riding 12 kilometres at least, each day, so we can feel some sense of keeping fit, or even fool ourselves that we are fit.

It is interesting to see so many people out and about, many of whom I suspect don’t get out “normally” but now feel a sense of urgency to keep walking. It’s also interesting to see how friendly most people are. There is always a nod, a smile, sometimes a comment as we ride past. People want to connect, and obviously some like our cousin, are feeling deprived of such a connection.  She lives alone.

Another beneficial change is that people are now thinking how they can do things differently, even in a minor way. Can we work from home far more? What will be the impact of this? There are many obviously, such as lower emissions, avoiding infections in winter, and the fact that we can save travelling long distances for conferences. Can we just use Zoom?

In Between Two Homes, the benefits for Ben were originally not embraced by him, but by the end of the book, he could see many advantages for himself, life had changed for good. He has gained, we too can gain from this, we just need to look at how. Hopefully we can link up in many new ways and don’t have to be like the people in this graphic though; we will never replace the knock at the door and the face to face contact with a friend.

In the future, we can look forward to that knock on the door once again, but for now we might just have to knock ourselves and answer it.

 

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