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it's often the little things that matter
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The latest seven-day lockdown for Auckland
give us more time to evaluate and appraise.
No restaurants, no bars, no coffee shops,
no parties, no crowds, then add in a
Tsunami, to be fair, it was a tough week.
Sure, I know other places in the world have
it a lot, lot tougher. I am not a nay-sayer; I
agree and support the government’s stand,
but you did get a strong feeling of here we
go again.
I don’t want to take credit for this, (I heard it
on the radio while driving) but a life coach
was looking not at the silver lining of Covid,
but of the effect. He said in his opinion,
that Covid and the associated restrictions,
‘concentrated’ our life experiences. That the
inability to do whatever we chose, reflected
against what we could do. It has given us
a chance to evaluate what is important and
what’s not. What we need and what we
don’t. The value in walking with the family
on the beach compared with dinner in town.
Mountain biking your local area compared
to driving to the city. Even the loss of
income, people are looking and openly
saying ‘how much do I really need to live’.
What’s the value and loss against earning
less but getting more time.
Sure once the restriction are lifted, we will
slowly go back to swilling ten-dollar extra
soy double shot, no sugar, cinnamon lattes.
But hopefully we can take forward some of
the experiences we have chosen because
of the restrictions forward to our unrestricted
life and recall the value of a walk on the
beach or the hand shake of a friend.
This issue is our survival issue and when
talking to some of these people a common
thread is that you ‘don’t know what got till
it gone’. Brodie Selene comes to mind,
he finished the Coast to Coast at 16, was
tramping and surfing and involved in surf
lifesaving and then overnight his world
disappears. I read this heartfelt story and
thought if it happened to me, I could say I
had a good run. But Brodie was 16, he was
just getting going on life and it was ripped
away from him (you can read the rest). But
he talks about missing all the stuff he could
do and how much value it had.
Maybe looking to the future we can look
and value that which we so easily take for
granted.
I’ll leave you with a story from a friend who
lives in the USA, he is older, 75, and lives in
a part of LA where there is a high density of
Covid cases. Last week he got the vaccine,
this week he hugged his grandchildren for
the first time in a year.
The little things are often the most valuable
and maybe, just maybe, Covid has taught
us not to take them for granted.
Steve Dickinson - Editor
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