Stop the Busy World I Want to Get Off!
Searching for peace and quiet in a hectic world
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Disclaimer: don’t worry, the title of this article isn’t meaning that I want to unalive myself and cease existing. Just the opposite.
I was, in a strange sort of way, thankful for the pandemic when it first started.
Not the actual pandemic itself of course, bringing with it death and grief and loss and fear and lack and anger and frustration and confusion and stress and anxiety.
But when the world went into lockdown, of various stages, I was grateful for the stopping.
The slowing down.
The chance to take a collective exhale and just paste, breathe, and really realize what matters in life.
The fact that with this planetary pause in the hecticness and chaos that is modern society, it gave the natural world a brief window in which to right itself again, just a little bit.
It allowed it to be okay to slow down.
It was okay to not do as much — since we weren’t really able to go anywhere or do anything. We were homebound. And I thoroughly enjoyed that…
