Yet, if I am honest, I initially overcommitted myself with the newfound freedom post lockdown… it is so incredibly easy it is to slip back into old habits. I find myself more accountable and making fewer excuses. Some of the questions I’ve asked myself are: What are the best bits of my old life? What have I learned? Maybe most importantly, what do I want to take with me? As spring awakens around me it has me contemplating how I want to emerge from what feels like the longest winter of my life. Lately, I have been thinking about my pre-pandemic life, what I loved and what I loathed, and the last few days reflecting the last days on the positive bi-products of the pandemic. We have coined Work from Home (WFH), we use Zoom in a similar way to Google – let’s zoom, we have no time and feel exhausted, back to riding the train without a mask and social distancing seems like a thing of the past. What has changed since then? Potentially everything and nothing. ![]() Did you know the last weeks are the third sunniest ever? 2020 was also one of the sunniest springs on record and a time when we turned inward, creating new habits, connecting via technology, and spending more time than ever at home. Like a lamb shaky on its legs for the first time we are all venturing out into spring, one that is vastly different from the last two and yet strangely familiar at the same time. The flower beds are bursting with color, the trees grow leaves at a staggering pace, even the coldest of hearts are warmed by the sight of baby animals. ![]() April is absolutely stunning in the Netherlands, it is as if all those long grey months which proceeded it were making way for the awaking of such incredible beauty and new life.
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