COVID-19: Time to know ourselves better.

Stay at home. Stay at home and stay at home.

We are all advised to stay at home, with very little to no socializing with the people we normally socialize with, and that is our friends and relatives. The coronavirus also known as the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a lot of professional and social activities. A lot of people have found themselves with a lot of time on their hands.

The COVID-19 has challenged a lot of things that we considered normal for decades and now we seem stranded and trying to find new ways of doing life. Maybe not so stranded because some of the “new COVID-19” way of doing thing have been proposed before and like many other great ideas were discarded.

Many of us are advised to practice social distancing and for most, it is something that we are not used to. A lot of people are not used to be indoors for hours on end, and that can be frustrating to them. Maybe we should ask ourselves what causes us to find difficulty with being home and not out and about. Do we find spending more time at home frustrating?

Are we living lives that are dependent on social excursions that require us to be on the streets? Have we built lives for ourselves that are socially awkward should find ourselves spending more than a certain number of hours indoors? Have we built homes that are comfortable for us to spend so much of our time in? I remember the one time a friend mentioned in conversation that we are building big houses that we do not get to even spend enough time in.

We have had limited to no movement in recently and this might continue for a few more weeks and we will be faced with a new reality of staying at home and working from home. This will cause us to face our thoughts which generally influence the way to do life. Face our families and be on constant communication with them.

Maybe we need to use this time (as we ray for a remedy for the COVID-19) to deal with our issues that we have put off, deal with our lack of communication that we have had with our families (well we will be in the same space as them for days), deal with our emotional distress and not that, follow up on yearly goals, spend time with those whom we profess to love. Maybe this is the time we should use to self-reflect.

Are you aware of any challenges that you will need to face as you socially distance yourself? Staying at home during this time is not all bad. I believe more good will come out of being able to socially distant. Think of all the improvements your life needs and attend to them.

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