What’s Next? Whether COVID is starting up again or if this is a final burst of energy for the virus, we will be starting our life again in the not too distant future. This article is not a solution, but is perhaps a delineation of the problem that many of us, as seniors, will be facing as we emerge from this worldwide pandemic. What next?
Perhaps we can help each other with our own solutions.
In talking to a lot of seniors, I understand that many of us are experiencing the same events as we move through the pandemic. With Covid, a quick look around at other seniors, tells us that many of us find ourselves:
- Isolated and not having access to, or having limited access to our community of friends and acquaintances.
- Becoming emotionally unraveled
- Becoming apathetic and losing our sense of purpose
- Becoming bored and depressed
- Living in a degree of mostly/often unwarranted fear
- Not taking care of ourselves, eating too much, not exercising and not keeping up with personal grooming
- A loss of focus and giving in to distractions.
- And a whole lot more.
So we have to ask ourselves as we move through the recovery process, “how do I reset myself to become more active and productive when this is over?” “What will I do when we are all ‘released’ from the captivity of our limited quarantine.
And that’s the purpose of this post. I am doing a short video project for the UDEMY video educational platform about “seniors resetting ourselves”. As part of the project, I am looking for what others will be doing to reset themselves when we are “released” from our COVID based quarantine.
All too often, when we ask “what next”, we have no clue what that “next” is. Some have goals and plans and will do something with them. they see it all as a new opportunity and will take advantage of it. For others, it will back to normal, whatever that normal may be.
I would appreciate your help. I am asking for those of you who would be willing, to email your thoughts on “resetting yourself” and “what next?” to me at bob@thecomealiveproject.com and put the term “Senior Reset” in the subject line. I will use the information but will not include any names.
Perhaps those who see it will be encouraged by what you will be doing to reset yourself after close to a year of far different and restricted circumstances than most of us have encountered in our lifetimes. Yes, our parents went through the great depression. I went through Pearl Harbor, Korea, 9-11, gas lines, and other circumstances where we were restricted, rationed, and quarantined. But most of us have not faced anything quite like this in our remembered past. It will be interesting to hear about your take on this most recent event, and your plan to do a “reset” when it is over.
Thanking you in advance for your thoughts on this.
And, thank you for reading.