We Have Designed a New Life - Reflections on the Human Spirit

As I join with you all in the UK on this National Day of Reflection after a year of lockdown, I have a few thoughts and, as always, welcome yours.First, I was v struck by this Fast Company Article “You are not the person you were before the pandemic”https://lnkd.in/gr3rxXgAlso...• I am so so grateful to the great everyday people on the extensive front line of this pandemic for all you’ve given, the sacrifice and the loss• My heart reaches out to all those who have loved, lost and feel guilty for now living and many alone and sad• I am fortunate and thankful that I have managed, I think, to design a new life and grieve in only a small part for the old one• Very soon I believe I will wake and go the entire day without thinking about the pandemic and the pain endured by others through it• I will notice someone wearing a face mask for the first time in a long while and be jarred into gratitude and reflectionAnd I will never unlearn the things I know about myself, how I handle an intense vortex of change and what I can withstand.On the whole, I think we will be OK, the human spirit is designed to rise & I need to make more I do count.