Resilience

 Many have mused on the ability of humanity to recover, to get out of this global pandemic that has just simply changed the way we live.

Not just the way we work, or the way we socialise, or the way we treat our families.

Just everything we do.

I don't think I have yet emerged completely from the shell I have built around myself during the time when Malta stood still, for about three months.

I wasn't ready to crawl back out into the sunlight and I wanted introversion to go on. I think I felt this even after I'd found love. 2021 has been much easier on me and I welcomed the closures again in March, preferring to stay within the cocoon I'd built around myself.  Of course, it was an entirely new way of being and I still am finding my feet.

Being in a loving relationship is nothing like it used to be. It used to be so simple when we were younger - if you wished to meet up you would just say so.  To express a thought was free - nowadays one is more easily led astray by concerns arising from past experiences. 

But the human spirit is resilient and we pick up, move on with life and get used to new ways of being.  So many projects I've embarked on to fill the loneliness have fallen by the side. Not necessarily a bad thing.  Some will pick up again, others will lie in wait until I'm ready.


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