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The Unbearable Lightness of the Other Shoe Dropping
Holding my breath, imagining “What if?”, and being enveloped by the shadows…
Just as the music is the space between the notes, so is the impending state of the world as the pandemic winds down. I think of this time as being the “Unbearable Lightness of the Other Shoe Dropping.” Right now we are stuck in between, where the past year has changed us all at the core level and the future is cloudy with a chance to go either way. This will all depend on what we learn about ourselves, how we internalize what has occurred and is still in the process, and the beliefs we have around our ability to move forward fearlessly into our future. It’s an unbearable lightness as to how we can proceed as individuals while also remaining immersed in the situations unfolding and revealed around the world.
What I Think…
The pandemic did not seem real to me when it was first proclaimed by the U.S. government in March of 2020. It felt futuristic to me in ways that I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around. Were we living in the future, or would this, too pass and allow us to get back to normal, whatever that was going to mean?
We have all gone through a life experience over the past 15 months that we could not have predicted, did not want, and were not sure how to deal with personally or professionally. The…
