False gods and rainbows

The coronavirus pandemic that grips the world has caused a shift in many aspects of life that we’ve all just taken for granted. I’ve had to give up trips to my local coffee shop to meet friends, I can’t travel to Cheshire to see family and, as one of the lucky ones, I’m tied to a computer screen five days every week in online meeting after online meeting. That all sounds like a complaint, but it’s far from it. Maybe I’m losing the plot a little because I don’t really have anything to worry about, but I’m enjoying this time. It feels precious and not to be wasted as might normally fritter away my days. I do feel a strong pull to ‘do something useful’ with my downtime but mostly I’m resisting it and spending time enjoying listening to the sounds of the world that I rarely hear, either because of traffic noise or usually because I’m too caught up what I should be doing next about my future. It might be fair to say that on reflection most of my life to date has been spent chasing false gods and rainbows, those imagined blessings that only come at some point in the future, preferably to lift me out of whatever mess it is I’ve managed to get myself in to this time. They are the gods of money and time, and the rainbows of ‘if only’ or ‘someday’. These have drained me and chained me in ways I could never really have appreciated until now – right at this moment in time when the ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Happiness Thought for the day false gods rainbows Source Type: news