Your investments have plummeted, or your job is at risk, or your holiday is at risk and you might not get the money back. They are telling you; you can’t have your wedding because they are going to close down gatherings of more than 100 people.
There is still joy to be found and its free.
Throughout the next few months many of us are going to be struck back there and we are going to lose some of the things that we thought brought us joy but we will probably realise that it was just commercial ecstasy.
I have actually been in the Coronavirus process for months now, due to the build of the new practice.
This has put me into places and under pressures that I have never seen before and I now see mirrored in other people as they are concerned for their futures, or their income, or their lifestyle.
So just as a little hint or a tip and maybe it will help or maybe it won’t, here are two things for me for me that are free or nearly free and that are amazing.
1) Walking my dog.
Pretty much every day I get up in the morning before 7 o’clock and walk the dog.
I get to watch her and she makes me smile, I get to meet people and say hello and I get to feel the wind in my face and the weather on my back and sometimes walk down the side of the river.
I do that at the end of the day to and sometimes in the middle but always the start and finish.
Isla frames my day at the start and the end and its joy, that I will absolutely miss when its not there anymore, so I will enjoy every minute of it now.
Sometimes I listen to music, many times I listen to a book, that’s pretty much at zero cost or pennies a day.
2)Putting Callum to bed.
Whenever I am at home, I do this, and he is now 12 and too big for it.
I climb in beside him and we chat about the day, sometimes we read, sometimes we don’t, and we fall asleep.
It is usually about 9 o’clock ad I sleep for 10 minutes and get back up and he is sound asleep.
There is joy in that, that is priceless and unbounded, and I can see it and I can feel it.
No matter what happens during the day or the dark places I may go to in my mind, if the day ends like that, it is a good day.
Soon Callum will be too old for that and he won’t need it anymore, I will be devastated when that day comes.
Whatever happens “they” can’t take the dog walk away or the time with Callum in the evening and I know that you have multiple things like this in your life, as I have many more and we need to seek these out at the moment because that’s where the free joy lives.
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