Lessons 2021: What I’ve learned during a pandemic.
In February of 2020, I had heard of a pneumonia circulating in Asia called Covid, but was fairly confident that my Government would take the necessary steps to ensure that we, as a country, would be safe. I was busy planning my holiday for a milestone birthday that upcoming March and distracted with visions of palm trees, sandy beaches and coconut drinks. A group of us were eagerly anticipating heading to sunnier destinations and just chilling for a few weeks. But that wasn’t going to happen…
Like most of us, our plans changed, got delayed or were scrapped altogether as we attempted to navigate the global experience of the pandemic. I was pretty disappointed with the disruption to our plans but I also felt oddly at peace with the decision I’d made.
Looking back now, it’s easy to see the lessons that I was meant to receive…the lessons we were all meant to receive. I couldn’t see it then, but this past year was meant to be a hard reality check at the importance we’ve placed on the things in our lives and what the priorities should actually be.
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