This is a scary time. I remember other scary times, but none like this.
This past week I’ve been on social media more than usual — probably more in the past month than in all of the past year. My website, Helensgoodideas, was actually broken for a long time because it had a virus (pardon the pun). But now that it back, I will give it some love.
If you are at all like me, you want to laugh at funny movies or watch a comedy special, but at times it feels wrong to have fun when so many people are suffering in so many ways. Still, we need relief from the onslaught of bad news or we will for sure go crazy. Topping illness with a insanity is a bad recipe.
It’s curious thought, that among the despair, there’s also a Renaissance happening everywhere. People are making art and music, and sharing dance videos and magic tricks with facebook, youtube, instagram, and of course with TikTok. We’ve become home chefs and purveyors of goods which we sew, or invent, or print with our 3D printers. I walk my dog and see neighbors doing yard work, or playing with their children, or just sitting on lawn chairs getting some sun. We wave and smile and say hello, and I don’t know the first names of most of the people I pass. Is it possible we see each other more separated than we did when we were together?
I wish to my soul, that nobody else gets sick, that nobody else dies, and that all the jobs and money we’ve lost is returned in droves. I wish this all to go away today and become a blurry memory. But that isn’t likely to happen.
In the meantime, we need to allow ourselves to have fun. My daughter has been bugging me to make a tiktock with her, and finally I did. It wasn’t as embarrassing as I thought and frankly if I waited to be at my goal weight, or in the right lighting it would never happen. So go ahead and dance. You may brighten the day of a person who could use some cheering up. In the meantime, enjoy this
