I cant believe that this is how we all have to start off 2020. This was supposed to be such an amazing year. Its the start of a new decade, but instead of thinking of all of the fun things that this year will bring I am just focused on making it through this hard time and hoping that this pandemic doesn’t last too long. My life like so many other peoples has been turned upside down. This is a time when people should be coming together, but instead the entire world is shutting themselves inside their houses and locking their doors. When this whole situation first started I was terrified. I worry all the time and this was just another thing on a long list of things that swirl around in my head. When things started to get more serious my thoughts became more destructive. I started to really feel scared and unsafe. I didn’t think that there was anywhere that I could go where I would be safe. How would I know if the virus could get to me or worse to my family? How do you protect the people that you love from something that you can’t even see? As the entire world scrambles to make sense of this situation all I want is clarity and a concrete answer, but of course this isn’t something that I can get. We all just have to have hope. We have to hope that all of the hard work of the doctors, nurses, leaders, and even the work of everyday people will help to bring us out of this on the other side. Our world has never faced a situation like this. After spending so much of my time worrying about how this would end and what would change because of it I finally told myself that I had to stop. There is no point in worrying for the future when we don’t focus on the present. We will all get through this. There will be sad times and losses, but there will also be courage and strength. In a time like this no one is alone even if it feels that way. We are all going through this together and we will all come out stronger because of it. We just have to have hope.
Here’s to hoping for so many more adventures with these amazing people who have quickly become my second family!