When the pandemic was declared last March and many countries went into lockdown, an often repeated piece of advice was: Don’t waste a good crisis.
Stories abounded of people who built million dollar businesses, discovered the cure to Cancer or stumbled on the meaning of life during a recession.
Isaac Newton apparently discovered gravity in 1665 during the Great Plague of London. He too had to work from home and what an earth-moving discovery he made. Within 2 years, he was made a professor.
So it’s natural to reflect on how you spent your pandemic and if you made as good use of it as Sir Newton.
I bet he didn’t have children running underfoot though. And even he did, I’m sure some poor harried woman would have been looking after them.
The point is, while it’s tempting to compare achievements (and social media makes this so easy to do), remember that our realities are all completely different.
Make the best of your circumstances and if they are less than ideal, I pray for the grace to go through it and come out on the other side.
This article in The Economist by Pamela Druckerman on how little she achieved during her lockdown reminds us that we are not alone if we did not achieve all that we set-out to do. 😀 Read it and be ye encouraged.
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