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If there’s one thing that 2020 should have taught us, it is the need to be adaptable! There we were chugging along in our lives and businesses when all of a sudden BOOM, we’re confined to barracks for an unspecified amount of time whilst a ‘deadly’ pandemic raged around us.

Some people saw the enforced down time as a chance to reevaluate their lives, take online courses, get fit, read more, write more, DO more. Others became lost without the daily routines of getting up, getting out and going to work and, instead of finding useful things to fill the void, chose to watch TV and spend inordinate amounts of time on social media. Which camp did you fall under? For most of us, it was probably a combination of the two. Some days a struggle to get out of PJs and off the sofa; others raring to go and planning to learn a foreign language and how to play the guitar all whilst planning a literary masterpiece! None of us know what is going to happen next, Lockdown Part 2 (which sounds like a film franchise) came into effect 2 November – allegedly for a month – it could be for much longer. How we get through whatever is thrown at us next is entirely down to US. Choose to BE and DO more. OR turn back into a couch potato. It doesn’t matter what any Government tells us to do, it matters how we as individuals deal with it. We have to accept that it is unlikely that our way of living will ever return to how it was pre COVID-19. Too many bonds have been broken. Too many lives lost. Too many lies told. Too many jobs and livelihoods destroyed. We can however look to a new way of living. Lockdown Part 1 appeared to bring local communities together, we stood in the street and cheered the NHS. We checked up on our neighbours and helped where we could. This is the lesson to remember; not how the Government dealt (or didn’t) with the ‘unprecedented’ set of circumstances, but how local communities banded together. Let’s hold onto that sense of community and belonging because; as the saying goes; ‘we are stronger together’. No matter how ‘socially isolated’ we are forced to be there is always a way to connect with others – a phone call, video call, chat through a window or out in the fresh air…let people know you care. No one can take that away from us.

Here’s to 2021 being a calmer year.

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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Down

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8 For travel in high style? (Linear, I take it) (7)

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