I have talked before about my ambivalence about my ambivalence. I am both blessed and cursed with the ability to not react. I do not think it was something I was born with, I think it was a learned behavior but in most circumstances it now serves me well. When something happens, some big or small event I have the ability to step back and step out of the moment and react with my brain and not my emotions. Luckily I was also born with a big old heaping scoopful of empathy so I can understand what other people who have emotions that run a little closer to the surface feel.
For me personally the Covid-19 virus is just another circumstance to deal with. I will do what I always do and reassess each day or hour if needed and just roll with it. This morning I was thinking about people who have emotions* and how difficult this might be for them worrying about what to do. I know how lucky I am that my husband and son are in positions that they can work from home. I mean so far my biggest inconvenience has been that I want to make chili and you cannot find kidney beans or tomato sauce for anything.
So anyway, I guess my point was if you need a calming influence and you occasionally talk to me but think maybe I won’t sympathize, I will. Maybe I can even help?
This can be one of the positive things about social media, you can find places to talk if you need to.
*don’t take that for more than I mean
Ninasusan
April 1, 2020 at 2:37 pmI am the emotional one of late…but I am also able to step back and not react…be a backbone, so to speak! Probably my years of 911. I am sooo thankful for social media…and these companies like zoom who have made it possible to help us keep it together by being able to interact with each other!