It’s been a couple years of hoping that things will go back to normal and we will all wake up one day and COVID will be gone. We plan for AC. After Covid. Each new year I catch myself saying ‘hopefully COVID will settle down soon’ whenever I speak to someone about my plans for the future. But the reality is that there will be no ‘after’ anytime soon, one day we will wake up and it will be nothing but a bad dream, but that day is far off. So whilst we plan for AC we miss out on the now and our time slips through our fingers. We can’t hold it against ourselves too much, nobody expected a pandemic and to be locked inside our own homes for the better part of two years. Nobody thought we’d adapt to working from home and no social activities, distanced from those we love to keep them and us safe, opportunities missed and lives lost. Its frustrating to see the things we worked for become non-existent and having to face a scary future of ‘whats next?’. Even now that the world is starting to open again it comes with stipulations, a necessity to keep us safe. The freedoms we have are hard-won but that makes them worth so much more.
I’m tired. Tired of watching the days pass by hoping tomorrow will be a better day. Tired of watching show after show be cancelled due to lockdowns, even on one memorable occasion from the inside of a theatre wondering if we would get to go on stage at all, or if our efforts were to come to naught all over again. So I’ve decided to use this new year to learn something new, whether inside or out, COVID or no COVID. Safety first of course.
Every month I plan to learn a new skill, be it a hobby or a trick, something complicated or something easy. So long as I’ve never tried it before then its fair game. At the end of each month I’ll make a post about the experience and what I gained from it. And no I don’t think it’s fair if I count posting consistently as a new experience, even if it is one.
One could look at it as character growth, leveling up or quelling boredom but however you want to look at it, I hope you come along on this journey with me. It’s gonna be a long one.
Elizabeth Renee x