2020 Perfect Vision
What a year!! Am I the only one thinking that? OK, I take that back: I KNOW I’m not the only one thinking that. We have as a group, encountered so many firsts, and experienced discomfort in many stages. As individuals, well you tell me! How has your experience been?
Usually at the end of the year, I’ll get ready to do some introspection, go back to what is the most important to me, and start winding down to meet the new year. This years’ ritual, will be similar but still so different. There has been a LOT of introspection all year, since for me it seems like that was what was left when all else was stripped. And maybe, I’m thinking, that was perhaps the proverbial great take-away?
MY year 2020 started with a bang! Strong health, and a schedule full of clients wanting to be better and healthier! Right around March both me and my husband got sick with covid, and which he had it for a week, I ended up being a so called long hauler, dragging the virus and it’s side effects around for 12 weeks, and am still feeling that something haven’t left me. So much for being in the best shape of my life in March! I wouldn’t wish this on anyone I know and love and I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart ask people to be careful, if not with their own health, but with the health of their loved ones. At the darkest moments, and remember back in March no-one was really in the know of what this virus was (we have come a long way on that journey when I’m writing this), I felt like I might not make it through. The fear and stress of feeling sicker that I’ve ever done, was overwhelming.
At the turning point, when I started actually gaining some energy back, which was sometime in October, a feeling a gratitude really took hold of me. Gratitude for being forced to stay inside, look inside and dig down deep. The essentials were left. My husband. My Puppy. A roof over our heads. And of course, my calling. All the things I just lined up, are together my calling.
As I’m leaving 2020 behind, I realize that there can’t be a coincidence that we can 20/20 a “perfect vision”. Stripped bare form all external noise, what is left his love, family, purpose and knowing that we must act as a group. We are a tribe, all of us. We are humans who are really social animals, and we need each other to be better and function properly. It takes a village to raise our young, it takes a tribe to keep us safe, it takes a collective sentiment to move us forward. I’m hoping that you might have caught a glimpse of this perhaps in the midst of all the unknown that this year has brought to us.
I wish you a very happy end of year and for us to rest enough these last few days to give 2021 it’s well deserved Welcome! I have your back as much as I can, and if you have mine, we will be ok.