Our world looks vastly different than it did a month ago or even yesterday. By world I mean our immediate world, the world in which we spend our lives in. Normal or routine does not have the same look as it used to.
Quarantine is a word that happened somewhere else on the globe, not in our precious United States of America! How dare it be enforced here! Isn’t that what we’re all thinking?
Quarantine
To exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
The world has taken this definition and made it fit into a virus we call Covid19. You can’t separate the definition or take it apart. The words of the definition intertwine and weave around us all day long as we listen to the news or scroll our social media accounts.
- Exclude – deny access
- Detain – keep from proceeding
- Isolate – cause to be or remain alone apart from other
The day to day routines we once took for granted no longer exist and to be honest may not ever exist again. My days are now filled with Covid19 stats, Covid19 Rules, Covid19 stupidity. I watch the news and social media and it’s a chaotic mess of potential cures and political absurdity. I am seeing selfish, entitled behavior and I am so saddened by it all. What have we become?
One morning I was particularly agitated at our species and decided to go for a walk. I was feeling sorry for myself and adopted a “woe is me” attitude. The place where I live had taken on a strange new sound that I hadn’t heard before. I heard laughter and people outside with their children which did not exist pre-quarantine. Bikes and sidewalk chalk and bubbles were intersecting my field of vision. It was very overwhelming and heartwarming to see all the families interacting with each other. My faith in humanity was being restored with every step I took. I pray that when we do come out of Covid19, and we will, that the family unit is healthier and stronger than ever before.
Things that can make your family unit stronger
- Family dinners cooked together
- Game night
- Back yard scavenger hunt
- Pray & praise with each other
- Saturday night Smore’s
- Bike rides as a family
- Sidewalk chalk
- Victory garden
- Zoom platform to just communicate with family and friends
- Gratitude journal
- Throw the routine out
This quarantine can leave us empty, resentful, and broken; or it can revive the American family!
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