I’m stuck. In the mornings, I’ve been constantly waking up thinking about what’s next — whether it’s planning for the day, or my career choices, I’m finding it hard to be in the moment. In many ways, the go go go energy of NYC has caught up with me.
Shivantika sent me this quote and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
I think many of us have an obsession with improvement. It’s hard to be okay with how things are. We have to always be striving. And even though we know being in the present is what’s best for us, it’s hard to accept that and live with that intention.
I mean we have to look no further than at the pandemic to see this mentality operating at a huge scale. One of folks’ favorite topics is how the government and other responsible parties have botched handling the pandemic. And there certainly have been missteps and we’re certainly not out of the woods. But when we take a second to zoom out and look at how we’ve coped so far, it’s been pretty damn incredible.
When compared to the 1918 influenza, which was a similar pandemic, there is no comparison.
Perhaps it would serve us all a little bit to stop always thinking about what can be better, and instead to see the goodness in what already is.
One of the spin off benefits of the pandemic- to reconnect with the present and not chase the future!