Well, I think it's safe to say that many of us are experiencing unprecedented times - unprecedented length of time confined at home, unprecedented queues outside supermarkets, unprecedented limits of travel, unprecedented uncertainty for the future.
After this lockdown is over, I'm not even sure that I'll have a job to go back to.
Despite the doom and gloom though, I'm under no illusions about how fortunate I am to be safe at home in my bubble. My thoughts are constantly with all those on the front line trying to get on top of this thing and for those that have lost loved ones during this time.
I lost my father-in-law just before Christmas and at the time, the pain was at times, unbearable. Yet now, I feel so lucky that he passed when and how he did and not during this COVID crisis. If he had passed now, amidst all this, we would not have been able to say or kiss him goodbye. Unimaginable. Unfathomable.
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I'm a fairly optimistic person in life generally but I need to keep myself busy. That's the key.
I've been so busy with my crochet over the last three years that this forced home isolation has also been a blessing. It's allowed me to finish all my current orders for the first time in three years.
Today I was able to ask myself - what do I want to make? I've not had that luxury in SO LONG!
I've also been able to sort out about a dozen little administrative tasks that I've let slide over the last couple of years e.g. fully updating listings across the various platforms where I sell, taking the time to think about whether I'm ready to write patterns or make videos, familiarising myself with the features on the various selling platforms that I never had the time to do before, optimising and maximising my online presence as best I can, creating my own website, sorting out tax for the sale of my crochet cuddlies etc.
I finally feel like I'm on top of things instead of constantly sprinting to keep up. It's so liberating!!
What have you been doing to keep youself busy in isolation?
Stay Safe. Be Kind.
x Esma