The last 2 years

How do you feel about that sentence?

For me it feels bittersweet, never in a million years I would have thought of a pandemic hitting the world, and the roll-on effects of it. However, a pandemic has happened in the past so it should not have been a total surprise I guess?

From this event, I have learnt to appreciate the small things that we used to take for granted. Were we going through life a little too automated, a little too accepting, a little too ungrateful?

There was definitely an element of automation, where we had done what we had done year in and year out, These past few years have caused a shakeup and a review of how I live, what our family does.

There was an element of accepting without any challenge. And that comfort has now dissipated, for a lot of people, there is anxiety and worry which is sad. For me I feel it is a good shakeup, it is good to challenge the status quo to look at my every day more carefully.

I have never been ungrateful for how my family operates, due to previous life challenges, but the opportunities we had in the past to travel so easily was taken for granted and accepted as normal (for a lot of New Zealanders).

I am now grateful for the extra time that was spent with my immediate family over the past 2 years, having everyone at home was precious and without the pandemic, it would not have happened. We need to look for the good in what has happened because it has happened no matter what. I believe there is always a positive that can be taken from what has occurred. There is always a reason for the season.