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Don’t Try To Sink Someone Else’s Boat

The pandemic sucks.

I’m currently on day 323 of isolating. I’m not going to try to sugar coat it. There are days that have sucked beyond the telling of it.

And yet I know that I am lucky, and indeed privileged, in terms of my personal situation and circumstances.

I have a job that I can do from home, so I don’t have to worry about being furloughed or becoming unemployed, or risk being exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace.

I have devices and gadgets that allow me to stay connected to my friends, so while socialising looks a bit different now it is still possible.

Even the fact that I live alone has it’s upsides in all this – when I have angry days, low days, hopeless days, I can let myself feel every part of it without worrying about having to “put on a brave face” or even take care of someone else. I can be truly selfish and just take care of myself.

You’ve probably heard the expression “we’re all going through the same storm, but we’re in different boats”.

The ongoing global pandemic is the storm, and our individual circumstances are the boats.

It can be all to easy to look at other people and think that they have better boats than us, that they are having an easier time navigating through the storm than you are. This is human nature, and not always a good part of it.

But just because someone else appears to be in a yacht while you are in a rowboat does not mean that they aren’t struggling with the storm. Differences in circumstances don’t invalidate the struggles a person faces. We all experience things differently, and comparative struggling gets us nowhere.

I’ve mentioned before that I think the world would be a much better place if we all made the choice to lead with kindness, and to keep making that choice every day.

I still believe this wholeheartedly. But the storm we’re weathering is taking its toll on all of us, and we might find ourselves lacking the energy to be kind all the time.

There will be times when we are angry, frustrated, feel unappreciated, etc.

All these feelings are valid but taking these feelings out on other people is not.

We’re all finding our own way through this storm. Don’t try to sink someone else’s boat.



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