7 Months Later...

March 29, that almost feels like a generation ago. In my last post I was knee deep in a quarantine and no idea what was to come over the next half year. Like any of us do.

2020 has been a cluster fuck by all accounts. Sickness, deaths, riots, protests and enough political bull dogging for a life time. In many ways we've been like a petulant child as a nation ruing that our life has had to change with the slightest inconveniences, but that's a whole other blog.

Perspective is what's important and it's a constant fight for me.  I've been grappling with mine more so now than ever. As we age belief systems become actual systems, much like nerves and blood. Firing and moving without even the slightest thought of it. When was the last time you stopped to think it's nice to breathe out of your nose, likely in the moments you're laid up in bed hacking away. Our perspective becomes entwined with every decision we make whether we like it or not.  For me it's about losing it's rigidity and keeping it a nice malleable product.  And all that requires is an ear.  An ear to listen, not to try  and understand and to give advice.  But an outlet for words to land. That doesn't mean it doesn't require a reaction, or a change. But in the actual moments it only requires time.  Many days I find myself at work in my office listening to my employees, finding out the barriers that they fear are holding them back. Relationships, money, depression, and everything in between.  Even my own kids, i sit back and listen and ask questions. How does that make you feel?  What is that like? Over the years that has helped me not to take actions at face value.

Which leads me to 2020. It would be pretty easy to chalk up all these little things into some one else's bucket. Place the blame or look for answers. To me I'm just sitting back and listening. What are all these things telling us. What can I learn from Covid or a protest to a riot to a karen.  How can I find empathy. For me 2020 is less about a year of problems, it's been a year of growing and learning. For a year with if it can go bad it will mentality, I think to myself the phrase "weather the storm"

Weathering the storm is less about the damage during but the growth afterwards.