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Maintaining Your Sense of Humor During a Pandemic
Why Maintaining Your Sense of Humor During a Pandemic is So Essential
Visualizing into the future is an effective way to deal with the present and to find a way to carry on in the face of adversity and hopelessness. Making sense of the year 2020 is something we will all benefit from doing, I believe. Engaging in mental gymnastics that stretch our imaginations and paint pictures we are able to insert ourselves into will give nourishment to the hollow recesses of our minds. Filling in the empty spaces within the caverns of our thinking brains allows us to write the story we will be telling until we draw our last breath.
It’s a perfectly imagined spring afternoon and I’m sitting at the Café Varenne in Paris, just a short walk from our hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Across the table from me is Luke, my friend, my confidant, my soulmate. He takes my free hand and holds it in his, silently persuading me to put down the croissant that no longer holds my interest. He smiles broadly, I laugh out loud, and it feels like we are the only two people in the world.
After almost two hours we stroll down Rue de Varenne on our way to the Eiffel Tower, just 3 kilometers to the east. We pause along the Seine, holding hands and reminding ourselves of how fortunate we are to be here…
