Saturday, May 16, 2020

May 16,2020

I very seldom know what day or date it is anymore. I hear that's a common thing since the pandemic and quarantines started. I wonder if journaling has also become more common.
I loved hand britten journaling.  The feel of pen on paper, the almost magical flow of words. It's hard to feel that like this, pecking it out on a phone. A laptop was easier to get lost in it but oh well, dont have that now.
Some days I am still stunned to wake up in this New World. A lot of days I have been terrified, that's getting less now, not because it's all less frightening but I'm afraid its because we are getting used to the New World. Add the word Order to that and you have the comments of a million conspiracy theorists.
I know everyone with any contact with others is a threat, including people like me who are careful to avoid going out in public and take crazy precautions when we do. But when a loved one comes over it is almost impossible to treat them the same as we do strangers now. I wonder if everyone is feeling this. I KNOW Jessalynn and Brandon still work in the public and live with families who all have their own levels of risk. Even Jenise,  fiercely guarded by Tiffany,  is still at risk from Rob having to go out to work every day. We keep more distant than before but not six feet and not always wearing masks. When Jenise looks at me longingly and lovingly I HAVE to hug her tight. How many of us will become sick or even die for this love before this is over?
And is THIS ever going to end? It is only logical that Covid19 is not the first and wont be the last threat like this to humanity. Do we cower alone to stay safe from everything forever? What would be the point? We all will die someday, many have extolled over the folly of dying without having Lived.
I have thought too much about my death during this. Terrified of how many could be hurt by me dying. Who will take care of my family plus I'm not nearly done teaching them what I need to. I'm not even through learning what I need to!!
So often, like feeling a word you are trying to remember hovering on the edge of your mind, on the tip of your tongue, i get a fleeting thought that there is Something important that i know, some missing piece of the puzzle, that I can almost grasp and then it slips away so quickly I believe I am imagining it. That sounds crazy. (At least I know that!)
It makes me want to silence the world, just shh and sit and meditate but when I do I find silence.
It's also part of the brain issue(s) I am dealing with. Maybe that's all it is?? In getting old, have White Matter Disease, a little dementia starting maybe.
But I am still very much in here.
Wow, and now I'm rambling.....

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