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Pandemic Perspective (or Grief-Guilt-Gratitude Syndrome)
I was able to step foot in a dance studio again this weekend (as my Instagram will show) and it was completely surreal. We went when the studio was closed to reduce all risk and I started ugly-crying almost the second I got in the door. I couldn’t believe it.
In some ways it feels like Grief: grief for all we’ve lost and can’t get back yet, or for those who aren’t alive to feel these things at all. But also Joy: utter gratitude to be in such sacred space again after almost 250 days away. But also Fear: Worry that the happiness will be ripped away again… or that I’m doing the wrong thing… or that “everything was for nothing” since spaces are still open right now even though numbers are higher than they were when we first shut down.
Since the start of the pandemic, what are the Top 3 feelings you feel the most? How do they differ from how you used to feel, or how you hope to feel in the future?
I figured today might be a good day to just “dump our feelings” out and feel heard. Join me?
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