When your world is feeling a off-kilter, focus on the little things you can do to make it right. Be it brewing a cup of tea and inhaling the aroma, or curling up in your favourite chair with a good book. Sometimes simply washing your face and screaming into the towel helps too. Try to focus on the little things and savour the moment.
It's not easy. What makes all of this social distancing and quarantine difficult is perhaps the lack of physical human contact. From early on most of us are conditioned to be comforted by the human touch - a pat on the shoulder, a great big hug. And it sucks not to get that. But human contact is so much more than physical touch. It is shared experiences, mutual understanding, and frank communication. It is crying and laughing together. It is knowing we are seen, our realities validated and our lives witnessed.
So, in these times of social distancing, make the effort to reach out. Be it through e-mail, text, or phone. Write letters, share stories, swap jokes. Be goofy, be artistic. The good news is there is no rubric, we are all figuring this out as we go along.
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